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Doomer OptimismDO 151 - Game B with Jim Rutt, Ashley, and JasonAshley and Jason interview Jim Rutt, co-founder of Game B, a
complexity-informed social movement aimed at creating systems change
towards an intelligent and cooperative society. They discuss the
evolution of Game B, the theory of change, current efforts to develop
viable ‘proto-B’ communities, overlaps with Doomer Optimism, and much
more
Jim Rutt is the former CEO of Network Solutions. The New York Times once
referred to him as “the Internet’s bad boy” due to his reputation for
creative mischief. He sold Network Solutions at the peak of the Dot Com
boom and then went into scientific research. Jim has been a...2023-07-051h 32
COMPLEXITYMason Porter on Community Detection and Data TopologyOne way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links — relationships that grow and break in nested groups of multilayer networks. Identity can be defined by informational exchange between one cluster of relationships and any other. A kind of music starts to make itself apparent in the avalanche of data and new analytical approaches that a century of innovation has availed us. But just as with new music genres, it requires a trained ear to attune to unfamiliar order…what can we learn from network science and related general, abstract mathematical approaches to di...2023-04-051h 22
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The SelfFor centuries, Medieval life in Europe meant a world determined and prescribed by church and royalty. The social sphere was very much a pyramid, and everybody had to answer to and fit within the schemes of those on top. And then, on wings of reason, Modern selves emerged to scrutinize these systems and at great cost swap them for others that more evenly distribute power and authority. Cosmic forces preordained one’s role within a transcendental order…but then, across quick decades of upheaval, philosophy and politics started celebrating self-determination and free will. Art and science blossomed as they wove...2023-03-241h 06
COMPLEXITYCarlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex SystemsHow do we get a handle on complex systems thinking? What are the implications of this science for philosophy, and where does philosophical tradition foreshadow findings from the scientific frontier?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.In this episode we speak with Carlos Gershenson (UNAM website, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Twitter), SFI Sabbatical Visitor and pro...2023-03-101h 06
COMPLEXITYComplex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James GleickAnd now for something completely different! Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, celebrating the immensely long time horizon, deep scientific and philosophical questions, psychological challenges, and engineering problems involved in humankind’s Great Work to extend its understanding and presence into outer space. For our third edition, we turned our attention to visionary projects living generations will likely not live to see completed — interstellar travel, off-world cities, radical new ways of understanding spacetime — as an invitation to engage in science as not merely interesting but deeply fun. For our first panel, we...2023-02-241h 00
COMPLEXITYPaul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)There are maps, and there are territories, and humans frequently confuse the two. No matter how insistently this point has been made by cognitive neuroscience, epistemology, economics, and a score of other disciplines, one common human error is to act as if we know what we should measure, and that what we measure is what matters. But what we value doesn’t even always have a metric. And even reasonable proxies can distort our understanding of and behavior in the world we want to navigate. Even carefully collected biometric data can occlude the other factors that determine health, or ca...2023-02-091h 12
COMPLEXITYDani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious MindsThis is a podcast by and for the curious — and yet, in over three years, we have pointed curiosity at nearly every topic but itself. What is it, anyway? Are there worse and better frames for understanding how desire and wonder, exploration and discovery play out in both the brain and in society? How is scientific research like an amble through the woods? What juicy insights bubble up where neuroscientists, historians, philosophers, and mathematicians meet to answer questions like these? And how long of a path must we traverse to get there?In this episode, we talk wi...2023-01-251h 20
COMPLEXITYAlison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.Humans have an unusually long childhood — and an unusually long elderhood past the age of reproductive activity. Why do we spend so much time playing and exploring, caregiving and reflecting, learning and transmitting? What were the evolutionary circumstances that led to our unique life history among the primates? What use is the undisciplined child brain with its tendencies to drift, scatter, and explore in a world that adults understand in such very different terms? And what can we transpose from the study of human cognition as a developmental, stage- wise process to the refinement and application of machine learning techn...2023-01-111h 08
COMPLEXITYRicard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The BiosphereWhat does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables call for different strategies in individual and collective cognition — what defines the threshold at which so-called “solid” brains transition into “liquids”? And how might we apply these and related lessons from ecology and evolution to help steward a diverse and thriving future with technology, and keep the biosphere afloat?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-r...2022-12-221h 13
The Neha Anwar PodcastEpisode 25: Simon DeDeo, Associate professor in Social and Decision SciencesSimon DeDeo is an associate professor in Social and Decision Sciences and the William S. Dietrich II Career Development Chair in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He was previously affiliated with Complex Systems and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. Prior to that, Simon was an Omidyar Fellow at SFI. Simon has also held post-doctoral fellowships at the Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo and at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. At his Laboratory...2022-12-162h 06
COMPLEXITYGlen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to their smallest components does not allow researchers to predict the behaviors of those systems upon reconstruction. Another way of putting this is that different disciplines reveal different truths at different scales. Contrary to long-held convictions that there would one day be one great unifying theory to explain it all, fundamental research in this century looks more like a bouquet of complementary approaches. This pluralistic thinking hearkens back to the work of 19th century psychologist William James and looks forw...2022-12-101h 17
COMPLEXITYJohn Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and ConsciousnessWhat makes us human? Over the last several decades, the once-vast island of human exceptionalism has lost significant ground to wave upon wave of research revealing cognition, emotion, problem-solving, and tool-use in other organisms. But there remains a clear sense that humans stand apart — evidenced by our unique capacity to overrun the planet and remake it in our image. What is unique about the human mind, and how might we engage this question rigorously through the lens of neuroscience? How are our gifts of simulation and imagination different from those of other animals? And what, if anything, can we know...2022-11-2349 min
COMPLEXITYJohn Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The BrainThe brain is arguably one of the most complex objects known to science. How best to understand it? That is a trick question: brains are organized at many levels and attempts to grasp them all through one approach — be it micro, macro, anatomical, behavioral — are destined to leave out crucial insights. What more, thinking “vertically” across scales, one might miss important angles from another discipline along the “horizontal” axis. For inquiries too big to sit within one field of knowledge, maybe it is time we resurrected the salon: a mode of scientific exploration that levels hierarchies of expertise and optimizes for...2022-11-1151 min
COMPLEXITYDavid Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of CommunicationCommunication is a physical process. It’s common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes work…but how much work? The question of the relationship between energy, information, and matter is one of the deepest known to science. There appear to be limits to the rate at which communication between two systems can happen…but the search for a fundamental relationship between speed, error, and energy (among other things) promises insights far deeper than merely whether we can keep making faster internet devices. Strap in (and consider slowing down) for a broad and deep discussion on the bounds within...2022-10-211h 06
COMPLEXITYKate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and BioethicsWhat does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no closer. The more we learn, the more mysterious it all becomes. What if we’re asking the wrong questions? Maybe life did not begin at all, but rather coalesced piecemeal, a set of properties contingent and convergent, plural, more than once? Maybe the origin of life is happening right now, just over the horizon, forming something new anew. Let’s get into the weeds and see if we can find a continuity between biol...2022-10-011h 09
COMPLEXITYMiguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and SocietyOne way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena — a teasing-out of music from the noise of history and nature. This effort follows centuries of work to find the rules that structure language, music, and society. How strictly analogous are the patterns governing a symphony and those that describe a social transformation? Math and music are old friends, but new statistical and computational techniques afford the possibility of going even deeper. What fundamental insights — and what sounds — emerge by bringing physicists, composers, social scientists, data artists, and biologists together...2022-09-2157 min
COMPLEXITYSteven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)As the old nut goes, “To the victor goes the spoils.” But if each round of play consolidates the spoils into fewer hands, eventually it comes to pass that wealthy special interests twist the rules so much it undermines the game itself. When economic power overtakes the processes of democratic governance, growth stagnates, and the rift between the rich and poor becomes abyssal. Desperate times and desperate measures jeopardize the fabric of society. How might nonpartisan approaches to this wicked problem help us walk the system back into a healthy balance?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of th...2022-09-021h 11
COMPLEXITYCaleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human DataomeChances are you’re listening to this on an advanced computer that fits in your pocket, but is really just one tentacle tip of a giant, planet-spanning architecture for the gathering and processing of data. A common sentiment among the smartphone-enabled human population is that we not only don’t own our data, but our data owns us — or, at least, the pressure of responsibility to keep providing data to the Internet and its devices (and the wider project of human knowledge construction) implicates us in the evolution of a vast, mysterious, largely ineffable self-organizing system that has grabbed the re...2022-08-191h 22
COMPLEXITYDaniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human EnduraceHuman beings are distinctly weird. We live for a very long time after we stop reproducing, move completely differently than all of our closest relatives, lack the power of chimpanzees and other primates but completely outdo most other terrestrial mammals in a contest of endurance. If we think about bodies as hypotheses about the stable features of their ancestral environments, what do the features of our unusual physiology say about what humans ARE, where we come from, the details of our origin story as a profoundly successful species? And what can we learn by telescoping that story forward to...2022-08-0352 min
COMPLEXITYAviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The DisciplinesAsk any martial artist: It’s not just where a person strikes you but your stance that matters. The amplitude and angle of a blow is one thing but how you can absorb and/or deflect it makes the difference. The same is true in any evolutionary system. Most people seem to know “the butterfly effect” where tiny changes lead to large results, but the inverse also works: complex organisms buffer their development against adverse mutations so that tiny changes cannot redirect the growth of limbs and other organs. It takes a lot to shake the pattern of five finger...2022-07-181h 14
COMPLEXITYSara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale IntelligenceWhat is life, and where does it come from? These are two of the deepest, most vexing, and persistent questions in science, and their enduring mystery and allure is complicated by the fact that scientists approach them from a myriad of different angles, hard to reconcile. Whatever else one might identify as universal features of all living systems, most scholars would agree life is a physical phenomenon unfolding in time. And yet current physics is notorious for its inadequacy with respect to time. Life appears to hinge on information transfer — but, again, what do we mean by “information,” and what i...2022-07-021h 22
COMPLEXITYDmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western TonalityMath and music share their mystery and magic. Three notes, played together, make a chord whose properties could not be predicted from those of the separate notes. In the West, music theory and mathematics have common origins and a rich history of shaping and informing one another’s field of inquiry. And, curiously, Western composition has evolved over several hundred years in much the same way economies and agents in long-running simulations have: becoming measurably more complex; encoding more and more environmental structure. (But then, sometimes collapses happen, and everything gets simpler.) Music theorists, like the alchemists that came be...2022-06-191h 25
COMPLEXITYSeth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & GovernanceWe lead our lives largely unaware of the immense effort required to support them. All of us grew up inside the so-called “Grid” — actually one of many interconnected regional power grids that electrify our modern world. The physical infrastructure and the regulatory intricacies required to keep the lights on: both have grown organically, piecemeal, in complex networks that nobody seems to fully understand. And yet, we must. Compared to life 150 years ago, we are all utterly dependent on the power grid, and learning how it operates — how tiny failures cause cascading crises, and how tense webs of collaborators make decisions...2022-06-041h 07
COMPLEXITYRicardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m...2022-05-211h 20
Sense of MindEpisode 25: Scaling Biology - Interview with Geoffrey WestThinking Tools Podcast Episode 25 -
The idea of scaling, in biology, refers to how a biological system responds to changes in its overall size. More specifically, the properties that characterize animals–such as their metabolic rate, heart rate, and average lifespan–are systematically related to the size of the animal. But how, in a precise quantitative sense, does such biological scaling manifest?
In this episode of the Thinking Tools Podcast, I speak with Dr. Geoffrey West about these and other ideas from his 2017 book, “Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life...2022-05-131h 22
COMPLEXITYDavid Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)The world is unfair — but how much of that unfairness is inevitable, and how much is just contingency? After centuries of efforts to arrive at formal theories of history, society, and economics, most of us still believe and act on what amounts to myth. Our predecessors can’t be faulted for their lack of data, but in 2022 we have superior resources we’re only starting to appreciate and use. In honor of the Santa Fe Institute’s new role as the hub of an international research network exploring Emergent Political Economies, we dedicate this new sub-series of Complexity Podcast to conve...2022-04-2152 min
COMPLEXITYC. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex SystemsContext is king: whether in language, ecology, culture, history, economics, or chemistry. One of the core teachings of complexity science is that nothing exists in isolation — especially when it comes to systems in which learning, memory, or emergent behaviors play a part. Even though this (paradoxically) limits the universality of scientific claims, it also lets us draw analogies between the context-dependency of one phenomenon and others: how protein folding shapes HIV evolution is meaningfully like the way that growing up in a specific neighborhood shapes educational and economic opportunity; the paths through a space of all possible four-letter words ar...2022-04-081h 14
COMPLEXITYMingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical CyclingAs fictional Santa Fe Institute chaos mathematician Ian Malcolm famously put it, “Life finds a way” — and this is perhaps nowhere better demonstrated than by roots: seeking out every opportunity, improving in their ability to access and harness nutrients as they’ve evolved over the last 400 million years. Roots also exemplify another maxim for living systems: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” As the Earth’s climate has transformed, the plants and fungi have transformed along with it, reaching into harsh and unstable environments and proving themselves in a crucible of evolutionary innovation that has reshaped the biosphere. Dig dee...2022-03-2653 min
COMPLEXITYThe Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker SmithAutonomous vehicles hardly live up to their name. The goal of true “driverlessness” was originally hyped in the 1930s but keeps getting kicked further and further into the future as the true complexity of driving comes into ever-sharper and more daunting focus. In 2022, even the most capable robotic cars aren’t self-determining agents but linked into swarms and acting as the tips of a vast and hidden web of design, programming, legislation, and commercial interest. Infrastructure is more than the streets and signs but includes licensing requirements, road rules, principles of product liability, and many other features that form the la...2022-03-1157 min
COMPLEXITYElizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance HierarchiesIrrespective of your values, if you’re listening to this, you live in a pecking order. Dominance hierarchies, as they’re called by animal behaviorists, define the lives of social creatures. The society itself is a kind of individual that gathers information and adapts to its surroundings by encoding stable environmental features in the power relationships between its members. But what works for the society at large often results in violence and inequity for its members; as the founder of this field of research put it, “A grave seriousness lies over the chicken yard.” Over the last hundred years, the scie...2022-02-251h 13
COMPLEXITYHard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary BengierAs a careful study of the world, science is reflective and reactive — it constrains our flights of fancy, anchors us in hard-won fact. By contrast, science fiction is a speculative world-building exercise that guides imagination and foresight by marrying the known with the unknown. The field is vast; some sci-fi writers pay less tribute to the line between the possible and the impossible. Others, though, adopt a far more sober tactic and write “hard” sci fi that does its best to stay within the limits of our current paradigm while rooting visions of the future that can grow beyond and be...2022-02-1154 min
COMPLEXITYMultiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2COVID has exposed and possibly amplified the polarization of society. What can we learn from taking a multiscale approach to crisis response? There are latencies in economies of scale, inequality of access and supply chain problems. The virus evolves faster than peer review. Science is politicized. But thinking across scales offers answers, insights, better questions…Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the dee...2022-01-2746 min
COMPLEXITYFractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1Some people say we’re all in the same boat; others say no, but we’re all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of your inquiry, one thing is certain: we are all embedded in, acting on, and being acted upon by the same nested networks. Our fates are intertwined, but our destinies diverge like weather forecasts, hingeing on small variations in contingency: the circumstances of our birth, the changing contexts of our lives. Seen through a complex systems science lens, the problem of unfairness — in economic opportunity, in health care access, in susceptibility to a pa...2022-01-1346 min
COMPLEXITYReflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey WestIf you’re honest with yourself, you’re likely asking of the last two years: What happened? The COVID-19 pandemic is a prism through which our stories and predictions have refracted…or perhaps it’s a kaleidoscope, through which we can infer relationships and causes, but the pieces all keep shifting. One way to think about humankind’s response to COVID is as a collision between predictive power and understanding, highlighting how far the evolution of our comprehension has trailed behind the evolution of our tools. Another way of looking at it is in terms of bottlenecks and reservoirs — whether it’s...2021-12-221h 10
COMPLEXITYTina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex SystemsDemocracy is a quintessential complex system: citizens’ decisions shape each other’s in nonlinear and often unpredictable ways; the emergent institutions exert top-down regulation on the individuals and orgs that live together in a polity; feedback loops and tipping points abound. And so perhaps it comes as no surprise in our times of turbulence and risk that democratic processes are under extraordinary pressure from the unanticipated influences of digital communications media, rapidly evolving economic forces, and the algorithms we’ve let loose into society.In a new special feature at PNAS co-edited by SFI Science Board Member Simon...2021-12-1358 min
COMPLEXITYSimon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of EpistemologyWhat makes a satisfying explanation? Understanding and prediction are two different goals at odds with one another — think fundamental physics versus artificial neural networks — and even what defines a “simple” explanation varies from one person to another. Held in a kind of ecosystemic balance, these diverse approaches to seeking knowledge keep each other honest…but the use of one kind of knowledge to the exclusion of all others leads to disastrous results. And in the 21st Century, the difference between good and bad explanations determines how society adapts as rapid change transforms the world most people took for granted — and sends human...2021-11-241h 21
COMPLEXITYLauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic InnovationWhere does cultural innovation come from? Histories often simplify the complex, shared work of creation into tales of Great Men and their visionary genius — but ideas have precedents, and moments, and it takes two different kinds of person to have and to hype them. The popularity of “influencers” past and present obscures the collaborative social processes by which ideas are born and spread. What can new tools for the study of historical literature tell us about how languages evolve…and what might a formal understanding of innovation change about the ways we work together?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official...2021-11-0533 min
AcquiredComplexity Investing & Semiconductors (with NZS Capital)Of our 65+ sources for the TSMC episode, one stood above the rest: a wonderful Knowledge Project episode with Brinton Johns and Jon Bathgate of NZS Capital laying out the state of the semiconductor market. When coincidentally we met Brinton a week later, we knew fate was telling us we had to dig deeper. It turns out NZS has a lot more to teach Acquired than just about semis! Here we dive into their fascinating philosophy of "complexity investing", which was born out of their interactions with the world-famous Santa Fe Institute (of W. Brian Arthur and Increasing Returns fame...2021-11-031h 42
COMPLEXITYLauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible LaborWhen British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow described the sciences and humanities as “two cultures” in 1959, it wasn’t a statement of what could or should be, but a lament over the sorry state of western society’s fractured intellectual life. Over sixty years later the costs of this fragmentation are even more pronounced and dangerous. But advances in computing now make it possible for historians and engineers to speak in one another’s languages, catalyzing novel insights in each other’s home domains. And doing so, the academics working at these intersections have illuminated hidden veins in history: the...2021-10-2346 min
COMPLEXITYW. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and PhysicsCan you write a novel using only nouns? Well, maybe…but it won’t be very good, nor easy, nor will it tell a story. Verbs link events, allow for narrative, communicate becoming. So why, in telling stories of our economic lives, have people settled into using algebraic theory ill-suited to the task of capturing the fundamentally uncertain, open and evolving processes of innovation and exchange?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our world...2021-10-071h 03
On The Edge#035 Michael Garfield - The Purpose of PolymathsIn this conversation I connected with Michael Garfield who is a real renaissance man. A talented musician, artist and illustrator, podcaster, palaeontologist! What is the point of polymaths? He is the host of the Future Fossils Podcast and the Complexity Podcast for the Santa Fe Institute.
Previously he has been as a Community Manager for Long Now Foundation, an In-House Philosopher The Crypto Crew and a Writer and Editor for the Globalish Institute. His online profiles describes him as a Context Provider (rather than a content provider) and a Rift Navigator.
Our conversation explored the need for generalists in a...2021-09-2430 min
COMPLEXITYW. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)What is the economy? People used to tell stories about the exchange of goods and services in terms of flows and processes — but over the last few hundred years, economic theory veered toward measuring discrete amounts of objects. Why? The change has less to do with the objective nature of economies and more to do with what tools theorists had available. And scientific instruments — be they material technologies or concepts — don’t just make new things visible, but also hide things in new blind spots. For instance, algebra does very well with ratios and quantities…but fails to properly address what ma...2021-09-2451 min
COMPLEXITYTyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & MathematicsWhether in an ecosystem, an economy, a jazz ensemble, or a lone scholar thinking through a problem, critical transitions — breakdowns and breakthroughs — appear to follow universal patterns. Creative leaps that take place in how mathematicians “think out loud” with body, chalk, and board look much like changes in the movement through “music-space” traced by groups of improvisers. Society itself appears to have an “aha moment” when a meme goes viral or a new word emerges in the popular vocabulary. How do collectives at all scales — be they neurons, research groups, or a society at large — suddenly change shape…and what early warning signs...2021-09-091h 04
COMPLEXITYKatherine Collins on Better Investing Through BiomimicryWe are all investors: we all make choices, all the time, about our allocation of time, calories, attention… Even our bodies, our behavior and anatomy, represent investment in specific strategies for navigating an evolving world. And yet most people treat the world of finance as if it is somehow separate from the rest of life — including people who design the tools of finance, or who come up with economic theories. Many of the human world’s problems can be traced back to this fundamental error, and, by extension, many of the problems we create for other life-forms on this planet...2021-08-141h 06
COMPLEXITYDeborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed ComputersThe popular conception of ants is that “anatomy is destiny”: an ant’s body type determines its role in the colony, for once and ever. But this is not the case; rather than forming rigid castes, ants act like a distributed computer in which tasks are re-allocated as the situation changes. “Division of labor” implies a constant “assembly line” environment, not fluid adaptation to evolving conditions. But ants do not just “graduate” from one task to another as they age; they pivot to accept the work required by their colony in any given moment. In this “agile” and dynamic process, ants act more...2021-07-3054 min
COMPLEXITYReconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin WhiteSeventy thousand years ago, humans migrated on foot across the ancient continent of Sahul — the landmass that has since split up into Australia and New Guinea. Mapping the journeys of these ancient voyagers is no small task: previous efforts to understand prehistoric migrations relied on coarse estimates based on genomic studies or on spotty records of recovered artifacts.Now, progress in the fields of geographic information system mapping and agent-based modeling can help archaeologists run massive simulations that explore all likely paths across a landscape, bridging the view from orbit with thoughtful models of prehistoric peoples and how...2021-07-161h 06
COMPLEXITYMark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2This week we conclude our two-part discussion with ecologist Mark Ritchie of Syracuse University on how he and his SFI collaborators are starting to rethink the intersections of thermodynamics and biology to better fit our scientific models to the patterns we observe in nature. Most of what we know about the enzymatic processes of plant and animal metabolisms comes from test tube experiments, not studies in the context of a living organism. What changes when we zoom out and think about life’s manufacturing and distribution in situ?Starting where we left off in in Episode 62, we tou...2021-07-0245 min
COMPLEXITYMark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1Deep inside your cells, the chemistry of life is hard at work to make the raw materials and channel the energy required for growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Few systems are as intricate or as mysterious. For this reason, how a cell does what it does remains a frontier for research — and, consequently, theory often grows unchecked by solid data. Most of what we know about the enzymatic processes of plant and animal metabolisms comes from test tube experiments, not studies in the context of a living organism. How much has this necessarily reductionist approach misled us, and what changes wh...2021-06-1840 min
On The Edge#032 Geoffrey West - The Universal Laws of ScalingIn this conversation I connected with Geoffrey West who is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute the Santa Fe Institute is the world's leading research center for complex systems science.
He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. Among other things, his work states that with the doubling of a city's size, salaries per capita will generally increase by 15%. West became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. After...2021-06-1536 min
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous IdeaThe 19th Century saw many transformations: the origins of ecology and modern climatology, new unifying theories of the living world, the first Big Science projects, revolutions in the Spanish colonies, new information systems for the storage and representation of data… Many of these can be traced back to the influence of one singular explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt was one of the last true polymathic individuals in whom the sum of human knowledge could be seated. As the known world grew, he leaned increasingly upon the work and minds of his collaborators — a kind of human bridge between the age o...2021-06-0448 min
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's NaturegemäldeWhen you hear the word “nature,” what comes to mind? Chances are, if you are listening to this in the 21st Century, the image is one of a vast, interconnected, living network — one in which you and your fellow human beings play a complicated part. And yet, this is a relatively recent way of thinking for the modern West. It takes a special kind of thinker — and a special kind of life — to find and recognize the patterns that connect different environments around the planet. Until the pioneering research of 19th-Century explorer Alexander von Humboldt, no one had ever noticed globa...2021-05-2151 min
COMPLEXITYSidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday LifeComplexity is all around us: in the paths we walk through pathless woods, the strategies we use to park our cars, the dynamics of an elevator as it cycles up and down a building. Zoom out far enough and the phenomena of everyday existence start revealing hidden links, suggesting underlying universal patterns. At great theoretic heights, it all yields to statistical analysis: winning streaks and traffic jams, card games and elevators. Boiling down complicated real-world situations into elegant toy models, physicists derive mathematical descriptions that transcend mundane particulars — helping us see daily life with fresh new eyes.Wel...2021-05-0757 min
COMPLEXITYOrit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies“More than the sum of its parts” is practically the slogan of systems thinking. One canonical example is a beehive: individually, a honeybee is not that clever, but together they can function like shapeshifting metamaterials or mesh networks — some of humankind’s most sophisticated innovations. Emergent collective behavior is common in the insect world — and not just among superstar collaborators like bees, ants, and termites. One firefly, alone, blinks randomly; together, fireflies effect an awe-inspiring synchrony in large, coordinated light shows scientists are only starting to explain. It turns out that diversity is key, even in a swarm; variety improves the...2021-04-231h 00
PodscribersMichael Garfield - The Complexity and Future Fossils Podcasts“I really like just being down in the trenches with people. Discord is a place to have moments where a topic springs up in a channel, and for the next hour you have one of the most heartfelt, beautiful conversations.” Michael Garfield is the host of the Future Fossils podcast, Complexity podcast, and the social media director at the Santa Fe Institute.
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How Michael came to host both the complexity podcast and the future fossils? Michael learned on stage that not only was he a musical performer, but he was also great at publ...2021-04-1246 min
COMPLEXITYJonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & BeliefsHuman relationships are often described in the language of “chemistry” — does that make the beliefs and attitudes of individuals a kind of “physics”? It is, at least, a fascinating avenue of inquiry. In particular, the field of statistical mechanics offers potent tools for understanding how exactly people form their views and change their minds. From this perspective, everyone is a dynamic network of opinions and values, in a tense and ever-changing balance both with others and ourselves. The “chemistry” of social life, then, arises from multilevel interactions in our noisy minds and how they influence each other.Welcome to Comp...2021-04-0947 min
COMPLEXITYJ. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics RevolutionOnce upon a time at UC Santa Cruz, a group of renegade grad students started mixing physics with math and computers, determined to discover underlying patterns in the seeming-randomness of systems like the weather and roulette. Their research led to major insights in the emerging field of chaos theory, and eventually to the new discipline of complexity economics — which brings models from ecology and physics, cognitive science and biology together to improve our understanding of how value flows through networks, how people make decisions, and how new technologies evolve. As the human world weaves new global economic systems and sust...2021-03-261h 04
Kuantum Teknolojileri SohbetleriKuantum Teknolojileri Sohbetleri #25 - 14 03 2021 - Dr. Sina ZeytinoğluKuantum Teknolojileri Sohbetlerinin bu bölümünde doktorasını ETH Zurich'te aldıktan sonra şu an Harvard'da doktora sonrası çalışmalarını sürdüren Sina Zeytinoğlu'nu konuk ettik. Emergence kavramından yoğun madde fiziğine, aradan kuantum optiğe ve ışığın temel özelliklerine uzanan kariyer yolculuğundan ve daha pek çok konudan bahsettik.
Bu bölümde yer alanlar:
Dr. Sina Zeytinoğlu - Harvard University - Doktora Sonrası Araştırmacı
Dr. Kutlu Kutluer - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) - Doktora Mezunu
Zeki Seskir - ODTÜ Fizik...2021-03-151h 45
COMPLEXITYJames Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by DesignIn the 21st Century, science is a team sport played by humans and computers, both. Social science in particular is in the midst of a transition from the qualitative study of small groups of people to the quantitative and computer-aided study of enormous data sets created by the interactions of machines and people. In this new ecology, wanting AI to act human makes no sense, but growing “alien” intelligences offers useful difference — and human beings find ourselves empowered to identify new questions no one thought to ask. We can direct our scientific inquiry into the blind spots that our algorit...2021-03-121h 00
COMPLEXITYDavid Stork on AI Art HistoryArt history is a lot like archaeology — we here in the present day get artifacts and records, but the gaps between them are enormous, and the questions that they beg loom large. Historians need to be able to investigate and interpret, to unpack the meanings and the methods of a given work of art — but even for the best, the act of reconstruction is a trying test. Can we program computers to decipher the backstory of a painting — analyzing light and shadow to guess at how a piece was made? And, even more ambitiously, can AI learn to see and tell...2021-02-261h 00
COMPLEXITYAlien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McSheaThe consequence of living in a complex world: one tiny tweak can lead to massive transformation. Set the stage a slightly different way, and the entire play might unfold differently. This path-dependency shows up in both the science fiction premise and the hypothesis of scientific research: What can we learn about the hidden order of our cosmos by adjusting just a single variable?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of ri...2021-02-1250 min
Lefteris asks scienceLefteris asks science - Edition 21 - Can we be civil online? (with Dr. Garland & Dr. Galesic)What is hate speech? What is the best way to counter hate speech? How can mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence help us answer these questions and restore civility in online discourse? These are the things we discussed with Dr. Joshua Garland and Dr. Mirta Galesic from the Santa Fe Institute. Subscribe to the podcast: https://www.lefterisasks.com/listenSubscribe to the weekly newsletter: lefterisasks.com/newsletterBuy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LefterisAsksFind out more about Dr. Garland, Dr. Galesic and their work:https://www.santafe...2021-02-0833 min
COMPLEXITYMark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human SwarmMost maps of the world render landscapes in 2D — yet wherever we observe ecosystems, they stratify into a third dimension. The same geometries that describe the dizzying diversity of species in the canopies of forests also govern life in other living systems, from the oceans to the linings of our mouths. Behind the many forms, a hidden order shapes how organisms live in and on each other — and this emerging discipline of “canopy biology” may yield important insights into modern urban life. Human societies, like gigantic swarms of ants, are elaborately coordinated super-organisms. In these enormous in-groups, one key feature is th...2021-01-291h 12
COMPLEXITYCris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of InferenceIt’s tempting to believe that people can outsource decisions to machines — that algorithms are objective, and it’s easier and fairer to dump the burden on them. But convenience conceals the complicated truth: when lives are made or broken by AI, we need transparency about the way we ask computers questions, and we need to understand what kinds of problems they’re not suited for. Sometimes we may be using the wrong models, and sometimes even great models fail when fed sparse or noisy data. Applying physics insights to the practical concerns of what an algorithm can and cannot do...2021-01-151h 11
COMPLEXITYScience in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The PandemicCOVID-19 hasn’t just disrupted the “normal” of everyone’s social practices in what we take for granted as “daily life.” The pandemic has also, more granularly, changed the way scientists research and publish; it has changed the way science interfaces with institutions as varied as local governments and cell phone companies; it has changed the way we host and produce this podcast. This episode, for instance, with SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino and Resident Professor Michael Lachmann was recorded live over a year-end Donor Appreciation Zoom call, for those who both contributed to SFI in 2020 and could handle yet one more...2020-12-2359 min
COMPLEXITYArtemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of MeaningMatter, energy, and information: the holy trinity of physics. Understanding the relations between these measures of our world are one of the big questions of complex systems science.The laws of thermodynamics tell us that entropy (loosely but somewhat inaccurately speaking, “disorder”) increases in any closed material system. But at the same time living systems constantly pump out entropy, thereby keeping themselves alive by harnessing flows of energy and information. We know that physical systems gain or lose energy as heat — what is the difference between exchanging heat and exchanging signals with information relevant to a system’s surviva...2020-12-111h 01
COMPLEXITYPeter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”– Vladimir Ilyich LeninWhen human beings saw the first pictures of the Earth from space, the impact was transformative. New instruments for taking in new vistas, for understanding our relationships and contexts at a different scale, have in some ways defined the history of not just science but the evolution of intelligence. And now, thanks to the surfeit of textual data offered up by social media, researchers can peer into the dynamics of human society and analyze the turbulent flows of stories that drive our...2020-11-261h 30
Aliens & ArtistsMichael Garfield Part TwoStuart interviews Michael Garfield Part Two
Show Notes:
THE BROADHAVEN SCHOOL UFO SIGHTING & ARTWORK : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-38723643
STUART DAVIS PATREON : https://www.stuartdavis.com
THE LIMINAL MUSE : https://theliminalmuse.com
ANCHORITE MONK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite
MICHAEL GARFIELD : https://michaelgarfieldart.com
SANTA FE INSTITUTE : https://www.santafe.edu
TROPHIC WEB SYSTEMS AS ANALOGUS TO HUMAN / NON HUMAN CONTACT, ESP ARTISTS, EXO POLITICS
2020-11-1231 min
COMPLEXITYScott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling TheoryThe modern world has a way of distancing itself from everything that came before it…and yet the evidence from archaeology supports a different story. While industrial societies tend to praise markets and advanced technologies as the main drivers of the last few centuries of change, a careful study of civilizations as distinct as Ancient Rome, Peru, and Central Mexico reveals an underlying uniformity. Consistent patterns have played out in human settlements across millennia and continents, regardless of the economic systems we’ve employed or the inventions on which we’ve relied. These patterns, furthermore, look just like those that go...2020-11-1254 minAliens & ArtistsMichael Garfield Part OneStuart interviews Michael Garfield Part One
Show Notes:
STUART DAVIS PATREON : https://www.stuartdavis.com
THE LIMINAL MUSE : https://theliminalmuse.com
ANCHORITE MONK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite
MICHAEL GARFIELD : https://michaelgarfieldart.com
SANTA FE INSTITUTE : https://www.santafe.edu
TROPHIC WEB SYSTEMS AS ANALOGUS TO HUMAN / NON HUMAN CONTACT, ESP ARTISTS, EXO POLITICS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level
MARTU ABORIGINAL...2020-11-0655 min
COMPLEXITYHelena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing SystemsOrganisms aren’t the only products of the evolutionary process. Cultural products such as writing, art, and music also undergo change over time, subject to both the constraints of the physical environment and the psychologies of those who make them. In recent years, the study of cultural evolution has exploded with new insights — revelations into the dynamics of how culture is transmitted, how it mutates under different pressures, and why some forms are remarkably resilient and stable across time and space. Just as in biology, patterns in the structures of our artifacts converge on universals and diverge to meet the n...2020-10-291h 01
COMPLEXITYDavid Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific MethodOn the one hand, we have math: a world of forms and patterns, a priori logic, timeless and consistent. On the other, we have physics: messy and embodied interactions, context-dependent and contingent on a changing world. And yet, many people get the two confused, including physicists and mathematicians. Where the two meet, and the nature of the boundary between them, is a matter of debate — one of the greatest puzzles known to science and philosophy — but some things can be said for sure about what can and cannot be accomplished in the search for ever-better models of our world. One is...2020-10-1552 min
COMPLEXITYVicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & IdentitiesWhether you live in the USA or have just been watching the circus from afar, chances are that you agree: “polarization” dominates descriptions of the social landscape. Judging from the news alone, one might think the States have never been so painfully divided…yet nuanced public polls, and new behavioral models, suggest another narrative: the United States is largely moderate, and people have much more in common with each other than they think. There’s no denying our predicament: cognitive biases lead us to “out-group” one another even when we might be allies, and the game of politics drives a two-party...2020-09-301h 10
COMPLEXITYCarl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven WorldNow, maybe more than ever before, it is time to learn the art of skepticism. Amidst compounded complex crises, humankind must also navigate a swelling tidal wave of outright lies, clever misdirections, and well-meant but dangerous mistaken claims….in other words, bullshit. Why is the 21st Century such a hotbed of fake news? How can we structure our networks and their incentives to mitigate disinformation and encourage speaking truth to power? And whose responsibility is it to inform the public and other experts about scientific research, when those insights require training to understand?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the off...2020-09-1758 min
Alice in FuturelandBrian Goodwin, Biologist, How We Will Recover Meaning and Thrive in CommunityWE WILL RECOVER A SENSE OF MEANING. WE WILL THRIVE IN COMMUNITY. More than ever, this sense of isolation is challenging our social structures. Brian Goodwin (1931-2009), founder of theoretical biology and biomathematics, shared with us in 2007 his hope for the future wellbeing of people and the planet, long before the 2020 global pandemic. His hope: that we will recover a sense of meaning in our lives. That future society will be dominated by abundance, celebration, joy, and a general high level of health and wellbeing. In 2007, he felt we would thrive in community; that was the way things were...2020-09-1401 min
COMPLEXITYNatalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature DetectionIs there life on Mars? Or Titan? What are we even looking for? Without a formal definition, inquiries into the stars just echo noise. But then, perhaps, the noise contains a signal… To find life elsewhere in the universe requires us to wager a defined biology, to come to terms with what it means to be alive. Looking out is looking in, to ask the hardest question ever: How do we find something we might not recognize as what we’re seeking?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michae...2020-09-0256 min
Big BiologyCROSSOVER: On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Complexity podcast from the Santa Fe Institute)This podcast was originally broadcast by Complexity, a podcast from the Santa Fe Institute on April, 20 2020.Big Biology has featured several scientists connected to the Santa Fe Institute, and now SFI has its own podcast called Complexity.You can listen to all of their episodes here: https://complexity.simplecast.com/This episode, as well as show notes, are available here: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29Complexity features wide-ranging conversations with the Santa Fe Institute’s scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and artists who are trying to understand the deepest my...2020-08-2644 min
The Well-Read InvestorSchumpeter Prize Winning Economist Dr. W Brian Arthur on Becoming a Complexity ThinkerIn Episode 4 Host, Michael Hanson speaks with noted economist and professor Dr. W. Brian Arthur on the show, discussing his book Complexity and the Economy. With a list of accomplishments too long to list—the 1990 Schumpeter Prize in Economics among them—Dr. Arthur’s wide-ranging career spans numerous books and publications, over a decade teaching at Stanford, and currently he’s an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Visiting Researcher at the System Sciences Lab, at the Palo Alto Research Center for technology. He’s not only a deep thinker, he’s been a great ambassador. Part of that...2020-07-2900 min
COMPLEXITYFractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie LeeSince the 1940s, scientists have puzzled over a curious finding: armed conflict data reveals that human battles obey a power-law distribution, like avalanches and epidemics. Just like the fractal surfaces of mountains and cauliflowers, the shape of violence looks the same at any level of magnification. Beyond the particulars of why we fight, this pattern suggests a deep hidden order in the physical laws governing society. And, digging into new analyses of data from both armed conflicts and voting patterns, complex systems researchers have started to identify the so-called “pivotal components” — the straw that breaks the camel’s back, the spark t...2020-07-241h 02
COMPLEXITYFighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)The magnitude of interlocking “wicked problems” we humans face today is daunting…and made all the worse by the widening schisms in our public discourse, the growing prominence of hate speech and prejudicial violence. How can we collaborate at scale if it’s not even safe to act as citizens, to participate in a sufficiently diverse society, without becoming targets? The World Wide Web has made it easier than ever for hate groups to organize…but also grants new power to those willing to oppose the hateful. New tactics such as “counter speech” have sprung up to depolarize society. But do they wo...2020-07-151h 05
COMPLEXITYThe Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence GonzalesEach of us at some point in our lives will face traumatizing hardship — abuse or injury, lack or loss. And all of us must weather the planetwide effects of this pandemic, economic instability, systemic inequality, and social unrest…and find a way to live on with their consequences. Trauma isn’t evenly distributed. But it IS ubiquitous, and learning how to get on with our lives is one of our main tasks as human beings. From this hardship grows the best of us: our wisdom, compassion, creativity, and service. By understanding the psychology and neuroscience of the body-min...2020-07-0659 min
COMPLEXITYGeoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)Cities define the modern world. They characterize the human era and its impacts on our planet. By bringing us together, these "social reactors" amplify the best in us: our creativity, efficiency, wealth, and communal ethos. But they also amplify our worst: the incidence of social crimes, the span of inequality, our vulnerability to epidemics. And built into the physics of the city is an accelerating cycle of crisis and innovation that now drives our global economy and ecosystems closer to the edge of existential peril. Many economists believe that open-ended growth and technological advances can save us f...2020-06-2558 min
COMPLEXITYScaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)We’re living through a unique moment in history. The interlocking crises of a global pandemic, widespread unemployment, social unrest, and climate change, show us just how far human civilization has traveled along a path that leads to collapse. It is more crucial than ever to seek a deeper understanding of the systems that sustain us, and the thin layer of life on the surface of our planet. What are the underlying laws that govern how we live together and as individuals? How do our economies and cities grow? How are the human and non-human worlds related? And can we...2020-06-1849 min
COMPLEXITYBetter Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)Mathematical models of the world — be they in physics, economics, epidemiology — capture only details that researchers notice and deem salient. Rather than objective claims about reality, they encode (and thus enact) our blind spots. And the externalities created by those models — microscopic pathogens invisible to the naked eye, or differences in the social network structures of two neighborhoods, or food webs disrupted by urban development — have a way of biting back when we ignore them. Structural inequality created by an insufficient model jeopardizes not just the ones left off the map, but the entire systems in which they participate. Science fic...2020-06-0840 min
Ari in the AirJim Rutt - The Road to Game BJim Rutt is an influential thinker, writer and podcaster. He's an American businessman and entrepreneur, the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute.
We talk about the transition to a new way of existing, aka the road to Game B. He has amazing insights on how we can go from where we are to where we ought to be.
Support this show by donating at www.paypal.me/ariintheair
Find Jim's podcast at https://www.jimruttshow.com
Find Jim's writing at https://medium.com/@memetic007
And more about Jim https://www.santafe.edu...2020-06-031h 01
COMPLEXITYThe Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten SchefferHumans, like any other organism, occupy a niche — a “Goldilocks Zone” for which our biology is suited, relatively to the extreme diversity of habitats on Earth. But to understand the natural habitat of human beings we would first have to perform a comprehensive survey of human settlements throughout history and prehistory, looking for patterns in the climate data. No one did this research until very recently, and what they found surprised them. Human life, especially the outdoor work like farming on which our societies depend, is suited only to a very narrow band of temperature and moisture levels, a tiny ar...2020-06-0256 min
COMPLEXITYExponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)If COVID-19 has made anything obvious to everyone, it might be how the very small can force the transformation of the very large. Disrupt the right place in a network and exponential changes ripple outward: a virus causes a disease that leads to economic shocks and other social impacts that, in turn, re-open urban spaces to nonhuman animals and change the course of evolution.Adapting to these changes will require a different kind of understanding: one of nonlinear dynamics, feedback loops, extended selves, and the tiered and interwoven ecological and economic systems of our planet. By studying...2020-05-1147 min
COMPLEXITYEmbracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)It takes effort to embrace complexity. Simple models, simple narratives seem easier up front, their consequences only obvious in retrospect. When we talk about COVID-19 transmission rates, we’re using averages that do not offer crucial insights into how those rates may vary. When we target complex ailments with silver-bullet pharmaceuticals, we don’t address the underlying systems-level problems. Radical uncertainty resists attempts at easy answers, forcing changes in the pace at which we take shots in the dark. Sometimes, as with infection testing, we can’t seem to take shots fast enough.But understanding systems helps identi...2020-05-0544 min
Veja Bem PodcastVBMais 52 - Complexidade (Parte 2)Reflexões sobre o cenário atual do covid-19 + lista dos 5 episódios mais escutados do VBMais. Qual ficou em primeiro lugar? Por quê? Veja bem. Mais.
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VBMais 50 – Pandemias
VBMais 21 – Vale a pena discutir?
VBMais 26 – Infidelidade
VBMais 40 – Anarquismo
VBMais 28 – Guerra Justa (parte 1)
VB 53 – Mentiras Necessárias
VBMais 38 – Leis (parte 1)
VBMais 19 – Redução da Maioridade Penal
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Veja Bem PodcastVBMais 51 - Complexidade (Bodas de Ouro)O que significa dizer que algo é "complexo"? Algo "simples" é necessariamente melhor? Veja bem. Mais.
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VB 52 – Coisinhas que Mudaram o Mundo
VBMais 11 – Inteligencia Artificial
VBMais 04 – Pena de Morte
VBMais 01 – Porte de Armas
VBMais 47 – Ansiedade e Depressao (pt 1)
VBMais 48 – Ansiedade e Depressao (pt 2)
VBMais 37 – Atenção
VBMais 35 – Linguagem
VBMais 36 – Como Falar Bem
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COMPLEXITYRethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)COVID-19 has delivered an extraordinary shock to our assumptions, be they in how we practice education, business, research, or governance. When we base forecasts on bad data, even solid logic gives us unreliable results. Centralized authority is good for organized coherent action but isn’t agile or fine-grained enough to deal with local variance and rapidly evolving novel challenges. Surveillance can save lives but also threatens privacy upon which a diverse society depends. A longer memory might cost more to maintain, but also save more by preventing even larger economic burdens down the road.How we adapt to...2020-04-2751 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 055 - Pearl Kendrick/Grace Eldering/Loney Clinton Gordon | Vaccine Creators & Public Health ScientistsAlternate Title: Whoop! (There It Isn't)
Emma tells Emlyn about the scientists that created the first widely used vaccine for whooping cough (pertussis): Dr. Pearl Kendrick, Dr. Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon.
Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com
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COMPLEXITYCOVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)In several key respects, COVID-19 reveals how crucial timing is for human life. The lens of complex systems science helps us understand the central role of time in coordinating across scales, and how synchrony or misalignment leads to major consequences—whether it’s in how the metabolic differences between bats and humans can create an opportunity for interspecies epidemics, or in how the timing of society’s return to work could either help reboot or help destroy the world economy. Network research shows us early warning signs of an impending social crisis, the fossils of a vast collective computation as we...2020-04-1342 min
COMPLEXITYAndy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19Pandemics like the current novel coronavirus disease outbreak provide a powerful incentive to study the dynamics of complex adaptive systems. They also make it obvious, as new information streams in and our forecasts change in real-time, how hard emergent behaviors are to model and predict. For this special mini-series covering the COVID-19 crisis, we will bring you into conversation with scientists in the Santa Fe Institute’s global research network who study epidemics so you can learn their cutting-edge approaches and what sense they make of our evolving global situation.Due to the pace at which the ne...2020-03-1936 min
COMPLEXITYAndy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19Pandemics like the current novel coronavirus disease outbreak provide a powerful incentive to study the dynamics of complex adaptive systems. They also make it obvious, as new information streams in and our forecasts change in real-time, how hard emergent behaviors are to model and predict. For this special mini-series covering the COVID-19 crisis, we will bring you into conversation with scientists in the Santa Fe Institute’s global research network who study epidemics so you can learn their cutting-edge approaches and what sense they make of our evolving global situation.Due to the pace at which the ne...2020-03-1936 min
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WūJīMāChā Dialogue[20E7] 屏幕阅读的迷思
Intro
林檎开始反思什么样的内容适合放在屏幕上看，所以和 Zizheng 聊起了彼此经常在屏幕上看些啥。如果一个内容既有纸质版，又有电子版，那么纸书好像一定是首选。在屏幕上阅读静态的图片和文本内容，是一种妥协方案：暂时买不到纸质版的 / 纸质版太贵之类的情况下我们才会选择电子版。
当然也有 born digital 的内容。它们有它们的优点，譬如时效性强、受众面广。除此之外还有什么样的内容适合被放到屏幕上呢？
与此话题相关的是如何看待电子杂志。电子杂志似乎已经和 newsletter 等价， 而这个刚好呼应了 Internet 的特点——「信息的快速聚集和检索」。
Voices
林檎：https://twitter.com/Underwaternya
Zizheng: https://zizhengw.github.io
Notes
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
电纸书 reMarkable：https://remarkable.com/
实体杂志：
《摄影之友》：https://fotomen.cn/sheyingzhiyou/
《米老鼠》：http://www.disneybox.com/wiki/%E7%B1%B3%E8%80%81%E9%BC%A0%E6%9D%82%E5%BF%97
《尺码》：http://www.i-size.com.cn/
《科学美国人》：https://www.huanqiukexue.com/plus/list.php?tid=230
《国家地理》：http://www.ngchina.com.cn/
《IT时代周刊》：http://it.ittime.com.cn/
《福布斯》：http://www.forbeschina.com/magazines
《读者》：https://www.duzhe.com/#/magazine
The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine
Santa Fe Institute Newsletter: https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/publications
St. John's College 电子杂志：https://www.sjc.edu/communications/college-magazine
Wired Magazine: https://www.wired.com/magazine/
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