2/ This is a consolidated thread now all four posts are advertised: We’re building interdisciplinary team to develop information-theory approach to understanding social identity embedded in social information. Slides from ERC interview, so forgive overambitious vibes :D

3/ ID-Compression builds on simple idea: that the link between social identity & polarization is compressibility. Compressibility exists when there's redundant information. e.g. we can capture key features of this painting with a fraction of the data, because a lot of information is redundant.