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Polis shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them. This approach facilitates both consensus formation and a better understanding of the lines of division.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
your personal style has a shape, in the most mathematical of terms.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The universes predicted by Boltzmann and Maxwell, and later refined by the thermodynamics of Helmholtz, Gibbs, and Einstein, were universes that evolved into homogeneous soups—soups in which there was no information and energy was no longer free (that is, there was no energy available to perform work).3
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
has been developing a theory for how and why our hunter-gatherer ancestors made the crucial transition to sedentary communities that eventually led to city formation.