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So, awareness of the problem, a common knowledge, awareness that others know, you know that the others are aware of the problem, the generation of common knowledge.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
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 Here Comes Everybody has me thinking about in 2022 is whether or not the dynamic era of organizational experimentation that flourished in the 2000s was way shorter than we predicted it to be, and if it is now effectively over. The apparently open-ended organizational possibilities of the 2000s web resolved in practice to a limited handful of... See more
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The idea that someone’s personal proclivities attached to a particular stage in life can shape an entire ecology of investments, philanthropy, and research funding is alarming.
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
Once brain porting technology has been refined and fully developed, will this enable us to live forever? The answer depends on what we mean by living and dying. However, if we are diligent in maintaining our mind file, keeping current backups, and porting to current formats and mediums, then a form of immortality can be attained, at least for... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Ilya and I are predicting the same future.
@ilyasut predicts that as AI becomes viscerally powerful, humans will change in unprecedented ways. I’ve been arguing the same. We are not open to radical change yet because we cannot feel the pressure of AI. Once we do, the vectors for human evolution will blow open. I have... See more
Bryan Johnsonx.comEventualism has become an accepted norm in the community, because by default since the beginning of the project, starting from nothing, articles have overwhelmingly benefited from multiple eyeballs (and edits).