Bibliography
A loosely curated subset of what was cited across 17 years of Ribbonfarm writing (2007–2024). Books are ranked by number of posts that cite them; papers and essays are external links cited in two or more posts. Book links are Amazon affiliate links.
Books (616 total, 553 cited in posts)
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Papers (51)
Age Differences in Risky Choice: A meta-analysis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing It Too (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Control of Linear Systems Using Generalized Sampled-data Hold Functions (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
Destruction and Creation Boyd (semanticscholar.org)
Driven by Compression Progress (arxiv.org)
Episodic Simulation of Future Events - Concepts Data and Applications (researchgate.net)
The Evolution of Altruism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Food Industry and Self-regulation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
FOREIGN BODIES IN THE INTESTINE (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
How We Conceptualise Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Structure (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
Human Time Perception and Its Illusions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Logic of Strategic Ignorance (researchgate.net)
Mental Pain and Suicide: A Systematic Review of the Literature (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Mind-Wandering: Phenomenology and Function (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
The Mundanity of Excellence (jstor.org)
The Mythos of Model Interpretability (arxiv.org)
Peer Pressure and Risk-taking Behaviors in Children (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Pointing as Situated Practice (researchgate.net)
Precise Minds in Uncertain Worlds: Predictive coding in autism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Proverbs of Administration (jstor.org)
Schizophrenia: The illness that made us human (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Science of "Muddling Through" (jstor.org)
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Smoking Habits and Associated Factors Among Greek Physicians (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Temporality and Psychopathology (researchgate.net)
The Ultra-social Animal (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Variability Selection in Hominid Evolution (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is (jstor.org)
Why Copy Others? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Why Monsters Are Dangerous (researchgate.net)
Work Leisure and Well-Being (researchgate.net)
The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction (jstor.org)
Essays & Philosophy (75)
1,000 True Fans (kk.org)
Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (criticallegalthinking.com)
As We May Think (theatlantic.com)
August: Let's Get Rid of It (slate.com)
The Axiom of Choice (plato.stanford.edu)
Bad Is Stronger Than Good (assets.csom.umn.edu)
Beauty is Fit (carcinisation.com)
Bridging STEM Fluidity (metarationality.com)
Bureaucratic Heroism (nplusonemag.com)
Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion (cognitionandculture.net)
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (ystrickler.medium.com)
Eliminative Materialism (plato.stanford.edu)
Epistemological Problems of Testimony (plato.stanford.edu)
Eternalism and Nihilism (meaningness.com)
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality (quantamagazine.org)
The False Allure of Group Selection (edge.org)
The Free Rider Problem (plato.stanford.edu)
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business (wired.com)
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (joelonsoftware.com)
How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined the Modern World (cracked.com)
How Economics Shaped Human Nature (scribd.com)
The Idea Maze (cdixon.org)
Is Google Making Us Stupid? (theatlantic.com)
Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com)
The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth (carcinisation.com)
Libertarian Police Department (newyorker.com)
Live Versus Dead Players (medium.com)
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (psychclassics.yorku.ca)
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (paulgraham.com)
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map (slatestarcodex.com)
A Measure of Sacrifice (nakamotoinstitute.org)
Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com)
The Metaphysics of Causation (plato.stanford.edu)
Modern Rituals of Solidarity (meltingasphalt.com)
Music in Human Evolution (meltingasphalt.com)
Nakatomi Space (bldgblog.com)
Neurons Gone Wild (meltingasphalt.com)
Neuropsychology of Motivation for Group Aggression and Tribal Behavior (jordanbpeterson.com)
Notes on Camp (faculty.georgetown.edu)
On Cooling the Mark Out (tau.ac.il)
Other Minds (plato.stanford.edu)
A Pattern Language (iwritewordsgood.com)
Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players (meltingasphalt.com)
Preconquest Consciousness (rewild.com)
Principle of Sufficient Reason (plato.stanford.edu)
The Problem of Induction (plato.stanford.edu)
Précis of Breakdown of Will (picoeconomics.org)
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)
Refragmentation (paulgraham.com)
Religion, Politics, and Self (meltingasphalt.com)
Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress (intelligence.org)
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (nakamotoinstitute.org)
Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole (meltingasphalt.com)
Supervenience (plato.stanford.edu)
A Theory for the Formation of Large Agrarian Empires (thesciencenetwork.org)
Things You Should Never Do, Part I (joelonsoftware.com)
Two Patterns (carcinisation.com)
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com)
Where to Start Your Story (open.substack.com)
Why Cultural Evolution Is Real (And What It Is) (carcinisation.com)
William James (plato.stanford.edu)
You and Your Research (cs.virginia.edu)
Youth Mode (khole.net)