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Richard Bookstaber • The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
What’s really happening within each city is a massive exchange of information across social and economic networks of people and organizations, all taking place on a complex infrastructural landscape of buildings, roads, pipes, and wires. For the most part there is no maestro; the properties of cities emerge from countless interactions of millions
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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
rabbit. So you can think of the economy as a series of shocks moving to an equilibrium, shock, moving to an equilibrium.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The first was " taxis " – deliberately created order, imposed by central design. This is the root of the word "taxonomy," meaning the classifications we place upon the natural world.
The second was " cosmos " – spontaneous order, emerging from decentralized interactions. Cosmos surrounds us: in markets... See more
The Philosophical Roots of Decentralized AI
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Rather, after a simulation is run a thousand or a million times, such models show policy makers the range of possible futures and their relative probabilities if policies remain unchanged. Then, by altering policies in the model and running them another million times, we might begin to understand paths to better futures.