The hottest Substack posts of Escher Studies

And their main takeaways

Cellar Door Letters

39 implied HN points • 20 Jan 20
  1. The newsletter is about tech, math, psychology, and science.
  2. Make sure to sign up to not miss the first issue.
  3. Encourage your friends to subscribe too.

The Internet, Perfectly Broken

0 implied HN points • 29 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Data Privacy AI Research
  1. The internet is fundamentally broken in key ways like infrastructure, ethics, and functionality.
  2. Open-source projects and public data can foster innovation, collaboration, and empower diverse communities.
  3. Access disparities, data utility, and attention economy are critical issues that need to be addressed to create a more just and empowering internet.

Supercooperation

0 implied HN points • 01 Oct 23
🔬 Science Evolution Game Theory Collaboration Competition
  1. Cooperation can evolve through mechanisms like direct reciprocity, indirect reciprocity, spatial selection, group selection, and kin selection.
  2. Elinor Ostrom's work challenges the tragedy of the commons theory by showing that communities can sustainably manage shared resources through local knowledge and cooperation.
  3. Understanding the biological foundations of collaboration involves concepts like Hamilton's rule, genetic relatedness, and cooperation conditions in evolution.