Sublime

not vary.

Evolutionary hypotheses, where one parameter is slightly optimized, have a less profound effect than revolutionary hypotheses, where the approach is fundamentally different. That said, evolutionary hypotheses are more likely to bear fruit.

The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

Digital divide and inequality:

But this sort of omnivorous eclectic mindset, which is very much what the SFI is, that is an aspect of physics that has been built into the genome of the SFI. That’s what would be necessary to be able to go after those kinds of aspects of conventional economics, which are just sitting there and have been for over half a century. Nobody’s actually

observer effect, by which individuals under study modify their behavior because of their awareness of the study.