People coordinate, defect, adapt, and fool themselves in predictable ways.
Predictable enough that some people think we’re in a simulation. These posts name the mechanism instead.

Three lanes:
- Essays on social protocols: cooperation, norms, institutions.
- Notes on human biology, what drives you without your permission, and what comfort hides.
- Curated video picks with chapter guides, only when a talk actually earns the 20 minutes.

The full archive is at behaviorengineering.ai