How Collective Behavior Creates Physical Reality
Rethinking fundamental constants, from gas laws to the electron’s charge, through the lens of emergence
Second Foundation
Our essays about psychohistory: what it might look like, what it could achieve, and what its limitations would be
Emergence and Psychohistory
Emergence has become a popular buzzword, especially in artificial intelligence research. It’s a term frequently used by charlatans and pseudoscientists, so it’s worth unpacking what it actually means and why it’s important for understanding psychohistory.
What Is Emergence?
Simply put, emergence is a property of a complex
Does India Exist?
History as a construct, Wallerstein’s view and alternative scenarios
Psychohistory: From Science Fiction to Reality
What Is This Blog About?
Survival of the Fittest
Analyzing survivorship curves helps to understand how different social structures—ranging from marriages to states—resist the risks of dissolution over time.
Boltzmann Brains in Psychohistory
Could Boltzmann Brains help understanding the creation of (some) human communities?
Roma Caput Mundi
A Roman emperor is just another cog in the Imperial machine.