Tag: strategic interaction

• Actor-evaluator interaction

  

  suspendedreason

  May 1, 2021

  Diagrams

  institutional theory, strategic interaction

• The surrogation matrix

  The “thing in itself” (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays […]

  suspendedreason

  February 2, 2021

  Essays

  alignment, deception, Friedrich Nietzsche, games, institutional theory, Karl Friston, Markov blankets, opticratics, proxies, spirit vs. letter, strategic interaction, surrogation, wireheading

• Economics thinking

  Mistakes in business or in science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the conduct of life are usually dangerous to life itself. To the tack of illuminating man’s progress toward a better understanding of human nature, this book is dedicated. Alfred Adler (1927) Everybody gets something out of every transaction. House of Games 1. […]

  suspendedreason

  October 27, 2020

  Essays

  Agnes Callard, all communication is manipulation, David Mamet, evolutionary psychology, Jonathan Franzen, Knut Hamsun, psychology, reciprocity, strategic interaction, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Schelling, Tyler Cowen

• The Dark Miracle of Optics

  Epistemic status: no idea how original any of this is; it just connects a lot of nodes in my brain. I’ve been told there’s a real debt to Robert Trivers, which I hope to educate myself on shortly. I may just be reinventing signal theory. Alternate titles: The Public-Private Information Gap Rules Everything Around Me […]

  suspendedreason

  July 10, 2020

  Essays

  bullshit, gamification, generalized reading, institutional theory, Jean Baudrillard, mimicry, opticratics, optics, signaling, signaling theory, simulacra, strategic interaction, The Wire, Zvi Mowshowitz