Human Systems and Behavior

Explores the internal cognitive and emotional traps—dissonance, sunk costs, affective bonds—that distort a leader's perception of threat.

Designing institutions to prevent the emergence of tyranny.

Exploring the spectrum of tyrannical regimes and their outcomes.

How coalitions of supporters maintain or undermine tyrannical regimes.

How absolute power creates self-reinforcing cycles of corruption and decay.

A mathematical exploration of how tyranny emerges and can be prevented.

Exploring the mathematical threshold where tyranny becomes inevitable.

Exploring the blend of deception, exchange, and coercion in human systems.

Exploring coercion as a high-overhead mechanism of power.

Exploring exchange as a mechanism of power in symmetric conflicts.