# Justin Lane's Library > Justin Lane's library on MythOS ## Links - [Library](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane) - [Full Content](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/llms-full.txt) - [Atom Feed](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/feed.xml) - [Chat](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/chat) - [Knowledge Graph](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/graph) - [MCP Server](https://mythos.one/api/mcp?username=justinlane) ## Topics - company (12) - multi-agent-artificial-intelligence (12) - university (3) - culturepulse (3) - research-center (2) - person (2) - institute (2) - ai-company (1) - simulation (1) - archaeologist (1) - network (1) - research-group (1) - entrepreneur (1) - agency (1) - deplatforming (1) - free-speech (1) - social-network (1) - musician (1) - activist (1) - artist (1) ## Recent Memos - [Vaccine hesitancy on social media](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/b086b3): This research asked a deceptively simple question: what actually drives vaccine hesitancy, and does social media shape it? Working from a nationally representative survey of the United Kingdom during... - [Asia Research Institute](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/91e54c): The Asia Research Institute (ARI) is a university-level research institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), established in 2001 as a focal point for world-class research on the Asian... - [Masaryk University](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/0974e5): Masaryk University is a major public research university in Brno, Czechia, and one of the country's largest and most prominent institutions of higher learning. Founded in 1919, it spans the full... - [NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/a01829): NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems is a research-center based in Kristiansand, in the Agder region of Norway, associated with the NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and the University of Agder. It... - [De-platforming the Far-Right](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/1641e3): De-platforming is the content-moderation practice of removing undesired actors from social media platforms such as YouTube. It has become a default tool against disinformation and extreme speech, yet... - [Censorship Effect(s)](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/96db02): The Censorship Effect is research from CulturePulse and collaborators — including Kevin McCaffree, F. LeRon Shults, Daryl Davis, and Bill Ottman — examining what actually happens when social... - [Stability Map](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/8efbbb): A stability map is CulturePulse's model-derived picture of where a society is holding together and where it is at risk of coming apart. Rather than a static snapshot of opinion, it renders social... - [Paramilitary Organizations and Cognition](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/5ce8e5): Social instability has become a central concern for governments, investors, and global stakeholders, and the cognitive dynamics of paramilitary organizations sit at its core. Recruitment, in-group... - [Is radicalization reinforced by social media censorship?](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/4ea72d): Is radicalization reinforced by social media censorship? The question reframes a common assumption: that removing extremist content from a platform reduces the extremism. To test it, Justin Lane,... - [Predicting Fundamentalism and Extremism](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/be131b): Social scientists long held that religious groups were too complex to forecast. A body of computational work argues otherwise: that fundamentalism, extremism, and radicalization can be predicted on... - [Simulating Religious Violence](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/af3d67): Simulating Religious Violence is an 86-minute feature documentary that follows an expert crew of computer scientists and religion scholars on a three-year effort to apply computer simulation and... - [Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/7e27fb): Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) is the first book on Multi-Agent AI (MAAI). It argues that religion and social behavior are not... - [Agent-Based Modeling (ABM)](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/93623d): Agent-based modeling is a computational method that represents a system as a population of autonomous, interacting agents — individuals, or collective entities such as households, firms, or groups —... - [ARES](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/8d3ea0): ARES — Automated Risk Estimation — is the flagship AI platform built by CulturePulse, the company I founded. It constructs psychologically realistic digital twins of target populations and audiences,... - [Digital Twin](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/b3a4e2): A digital twin is a psychologically realistic simulation of a human population or society — a working model populated by many AI agents whose beliefs, values, and behaviors are calibrated to mirror... - [Multi-Agent AI (MAAI)](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/4c5107): Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence (MAAI) is Justin Lane's signature method for modeling human societies: instead of training one monolithic model, you build a simulation out of many interacting... - [Croatian Earthquake during 2021 COVID Lockdown](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/72ba08): Croatian Earthquake during 2021 COVID Lockdown is a study examining how the 2020 Zagreb earthquakes, striking simultaneously with COVID-19 lockdowns, affected the mental health of Croatian children.... - [Science in Sermons project](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/ecd4cf): The Science in Sermons project is a large grant-funded research effort that uses AI and Text Analysis or NLP to understand how science is portrayed by religious organizations. It draws on a Database... - [Complexity Theory](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/ee17b8): Complexity theory, also called complexity science, is the study of complex adaptive systems: collections of many interacting parts whose local interactions give rise to macro-level behavior that... - [Studying conspiracy theories on Reddit](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/55eabd): Studying conspiracy theories on Reddit means treating a public, archived, community-structured platform as a natural laboratory for how false and stigmatized beliefs form, spread, and bind people... - [Computational Complexity Theory](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/8eb1da): Computational complexity theory studies the resources — primarily time and space (memory) — required to solve computational problems, and uses those resource bounds to classify problems by inherent... - [Schema](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/70072d): A schema is a mental structure that organizes knowledge — a pattern of related information, typically thoughts or behaviors, that defines the bits it holds and the inter-relationships between them.... - [Cybernetic Assemblage](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/47e7ea): A cybernetic assemblage is the term I use for a culture — or a religion — understood not as a collection of beliefs to be catalogued, but as a coupled system of people, beliefs, practices, and... - [Evolutionary Psychology](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/c033ae): Evolutionary psychology is the branch of psychology that understands the mind as a product of biological evolution. Just as the organs of our bodies evolved specific functions over time, so did the... - [Information Wants to Be Free](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/9bb6e7): "Information wants to be free" is one of the most quoted and most truncated lines in the history of technology. Stewart Brand coined it at the first Hackers Conference in 1984, and put it in print in... - [AI Guru](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/d71aa8): The AI Guru is a machine-learning system that delivers general religious and spiritual guidance, available at cloudcomfort.ai. I first built the prototype in 2019, drawing on my earlier research... - [Database of Sermons](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/d0e379): The Database of Sermons is a research corpus of over 100,000 sermons drawn from more than 5,000 churches across 15 countries, with material dating back to the 1970s. The collection is structured for... - [Free as in speech or "free" as in beer?](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/adc9de): The open-source world draws a line that most debates about online speech blur: "free as in speech" versus "free as in beer." The first is libre — freedom, the right to use, modify, and redistribute... - [Text Analysis or Natural Language Processing (NLP)](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/ca54ef): Text analysis is the use of systematic methods for studying texts. Early versions go back thousands of years to the study of religious texts, but modern techniques — often called natural language... - ["Thor" (religious supercomputer)](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/58326e): "Thor" is a supercomputer dedicated to the study of religion, installed at the University of Bialystok in Poland. It is the second such machine built for this purpose — the first was designed for the... - [Echo Chambers](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/896e21): An echo chamber is a closed information environment in which a set of beliefs is amplified and reinforced through repetition, while dissenting views are actively excluded and discredited. The... - [Economic Clustering](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/d41c56): Economic clustering is what you get when you read an economy through network theory. Networks are rarely dots all wired to every other dot; instead, tight groups form, and those sub-groups connect to... - [Misinformation Susceptibility](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/7395a5): Misinformation susceptibility is the degree to which an individual is likely to believe and spread false information. It is treated as a measurable trait rather than a vague disposition, most often... - [Cultural Cybernetics](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/cf2296): Cultural cybernetics is the term I use for treating a culture or society not as a static thing to be described, but as a cybernetic system — one governed by feedback loops, information flows, and... - [Social Identity](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/ffcfd9): Social identity is the part of a person's self-concept that derives from membership in social groups — a nation, a religion, a team, a political faction — together with the value and emotional... - [Pythia API](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/3bc287): Pythia API is CulturePulse's proprietary AI ontology and text-analysis engine, exposed via API, that scores words, phrases, and concepts against a lexical-frequency cultural ontology spanning 93... - [Digital Twin of Earth](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/e2b6c8): A digital twin of Earth is a planet-scale simulation: a continuously updated virtual replica of the whole planet — atmosphere, oceans, land, ice — fed by sensor and satellite data and run on... - [Fusion Theory](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/69a66a): Identity fusion describes a visceral feeling of oneness with a group in which the personal and social self become functionally equivalent. Where ordinary group identification — social identity in the... - [CulturePulse Founding Story](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/06891a): I started CulturePulse because I was tired of watching people make enormous decisions about human beings with almost no model of how humans actually work. I had spent more than a decade on that... - [CulturePulse](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/3c7317): CulturePulse is a US–Slovak AI company founded in 2021 by Justin Lane. It builds psychologically realistic digital twins of audiences and societies to model belief, motivation, conflict, and... - [Michael Gantley](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/843eb6): Michael Gantley is a cognitive archaeologist whose research sits at the intersection of archaeology, cognitive science, and the study of religion and ritual. He holds a DPhil from the University of... - [Metochi Group](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/22a04b): Metochi Group is a collaborative network of researchers, scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs working to foster links between technological innovation and critical geo-political issues. It is not... - [Bill Ottman](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/a98843): Bill Ottman is the co-founder and CEO of Minds.com, the open-source, free-speech social network. He is an internet entrepreneur and information-freedom advocate who has spent over a decade building... - [Brandthropology](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/6fcddb): Brandthropology is a Vermont-based marketing and branding firm that applies anthropological thinking to brands, building media-neutral, integrated campaigns that combine traditional marketing with... - [Minds.com](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/0426b6): Minds.com is an open-source social network built around free-speech principles and user control over content and reach. It positions itself as a transparent alternative to mainstream platforms, with... - [Daryl Davis](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/3df106): Daryl Davis is an American musician and race-reconciliation activist. A boogie-woogie and blues pianist by trade, he is most widely known for his decades of work befriending members of the Ku Klux... - [Agnieszka Kurant](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/6e39d9): Agnieszka Kurant is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist (b. 1978, Lodz, Poland; based in New York). Her work explores collective intelligence, artificial societies, emergent value, and the hidden... - [Dr. Justin Lane](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/creator): Dr. Justin Lane builds AI that takes human behavior seriously. A cognitive and computational social scientist with a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, he is the founder and CEO of CulturePulse,... - [DEKK Institute](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/79b1e5): DEKK Institute is an independent research institute based in Bratislava, Slovakia, dedicated to studying social cohesion and the conditions that keep societies stable and resilient. institute Its... - [Institute of Cognition and Culture](https://mythos.one/me/justinlane/febd58): The Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC) is a cognitive-science-of-religion research center at Queen's University Belfast. Founded in September 2004 within the School of History and Anthropology,...