Paul Smaldino
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
We did some reviewing of this idea in this paper, but I’d love to see a more in depth treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Information architectures: a framework for understanding socio-technical systems - npj Complexity
A sequence of technological inventions over several centuries has dramatically lowered the cost of producing and distributing information. Because societies ride on a substrate of information, these c...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We did some reviewing of this idea in this paper, but I’d love to see a more in depth treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I quite liked "On the Origin of Tepees" www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-the...
On the Origin of Tepees
“Ambitious and original. It belongs on the reading list of anybody who hopes to use Richard Dawkins’s insight into memes. That it is entertaining i...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I quite liked "On the Origin of Tepees" www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-the...
I’ll just call it silly.
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’ll just call it silly.
Yeah, it was something as banal as "I will refer to this phenomenon as X."
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yeah, it was something as banal as "I will refer to this phenomenon as X."
I was once told "APA format does not permit the future tense."
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was once told "APA format does not permit the future tense."
I recently learned there’s a documentary about this. Haven’t seen it, but there it is. mubi.com/en/films/fre...
TRAILER - Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)
Disgusted by the way police are abusing their power, outlaw journalist Hunter S. Thompson starts his own political movement, Freak Power, to fight corruption and cronyism in his town and across Americ...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I recently learned there’s a documentary about this. Haven’t seen it, but there it is. mubi.com/en/films/fre...
TSA once made me toss an unopened jar of Nutella because it was allegedly a liquid.
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
TSA once made me toss an unopened jar of Nutella because it was allegedly a liquid.
Especially appropriate if you were actually trying to convince her to play Rummikub.
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Especially appropriate if you were actually trying to convince her to play Rummikub.