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Collective Architecture — On the structure of collectives

• [article] Hydraulic Despotism — 1 Dec 2025
  Control the water, control the people. Today’s water is energy, social media, infrastructure. We’re coerced through convenience, not malice. There are many vectors for control—we don’t need to hand them over.
• [audio] Mundane Cults — 29 Nov 2025
  We’ve been taught that cults are dark and scary things. But we have been fooled. The cult is a prominent building block of modern community. If you’re not in one, you’re probably doing something wrong. The question is, is the cult you’re in a cult you chose?
• [audio] Men Aren't From Mars — 15 Nov 2025
  Men and women engage in identical behaviours—complaining, offering solutions, needing validation, resisting criticism. The difference isn’t biological, it’s interpretive. We cast the same behaviour as reasonable for one gender and unreasonable for the other. Gray’s book is a perfect case study: emotionally troubled men are normalised while women’s ordinary needs are pathologised.
• [article] Mechanical Ethics — 1 Oct 2025
  Vincent’s S-CALM model describes the situational and cognitive factors that undermine ethical behaviour. Mechanistic thinking helps explain how those factors might operate, and thus, where we might intervene on them.
• [marginalium] Against McAskillian Longtermism — 10 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Critiquing Utilitarianism — 2 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Digital Personhood — 1 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Graduates have multiplied faster than the room at the top — 12 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Preferring skilled migration enhances xenophobia — 7 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] What Is Centrism? — 6 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools — 6 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? — 30 May 2025
• [marginalium] Superstition In A Godless State — 30 May 2025
• [marginalium] Pitfalls of AI for information gathering — 28 May 2025
• [marginalium] Greening Australia — 16 May 2025