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Making Great Decisions When it Counts...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Cognition, Limits of Knowledge, Psychology on 12 31st, 2008 | View Comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4flnuxNV4&feature=channel_page] Some friends and I watched the above talk together by Dan Gilbert on the various ways humans made logical errors in decision making. If you are a behavioral economist or are into psychology literature, you are probably all too...

Emergence 101...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Emergence on 12 31st, 2008 | View Comments

[I just noticed the video links were broken in my original post, so I'm reposting this] Apparently this PBS NOVA program aired last year, but somehow I missed it. Definitely worth watching (and looking at the examples), especially if you are mystified by all of this "emergence mumbo jumbo": Part...

U.S. Government is Open for Questions...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Alternative Institutions, Government, Socio-technical systems on 12 29th, 2008 | View Comments

Taking the cue from social software sites like Digg, the Obama transition team is leveraging the wisdom of your crowd to find out what the most important and relevant questions are that the public wants answered. Judging from the top page of questions as voted by several hundred thousand people, the...

Going Meta on "Autonomy"...

Posted by kevindick in Agency, Artificial Intelligence, Emergence, Epistemology, Levels, Models, Networks, Singularity, Socio-technical systems, Superorganism on 12 28th, 2008 | View Comments

Continuation of: Focusing on "Autonomy" I've been trying to reconcile Rafe's an my views on this topic. I actually think we agree on the broad themes related to our argument over "autonomy". From my perspective, it seems like the only real disagreement is on the implications for humans. As a higher...

Social Entrepreneurship Tax Credit...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Alternative Institutions, Incentives, Markets, Social Entrepreneurship, Society on 12 28th, 2008 | View Comments

I typed "social entrepreneurship tax credit" into Google and the top result was this page on BarackObama.com. There are some good ideas there, and I hope they get implemented once he takes office. But I'd like to see even more. What I had in mind when I started thinking about this subject was how there...

Best Talk of Pop!Tech '08...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Epidemiology, Evolution, Homelessness, Infection, Invisible Etiology, Science, Science 2.0 on 12 26th, 2008 | View Comments

@ Yahoo! Video The reason I like this talk so much (besides that it's well-presented) is that it introduces us to the idea of invisible etiology. Such a powerful concept, one that I feel has the power to help us solve so many mysteries, once we take it seriously. Something that I've been thinking...

Homelessness...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Culture, Health, Homelessness, Interventions, Scarcity / Abundance, Society on 12 25th, 2008 | View Comments

This is a picture of what Food on Foot did on Christmas. It's a larger version of what they do every week, which is feed and cloth homeless and give them an opportunity to get back on their feet themselves. If you graduate from the program, you end up with an apartment, a job and a bank account. ...

Should We Hold the Bush Administration A...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Government, Society on 12 24th, 2008 | View Comments

Paul Phillips's blog entry quoting Greenwald on Bill Moyers sums up it up pretty well. And I've wondered what the Obama administration is going to do about this and what they should do. The arguments for not pursuing the Bush administration's crimes are good ones. We have such big fish to fry with the...

Focusing on "Autonomy"...

Posted by kevindick in Agency, Artificial Intelligence, Emergence, Epistemology, Levels, Models, Networks, Singularity, Socio-technical systems, Superorganism on 12 24th, 2008 | View Comments

Continuation of: Superfoo Rafe and I had a great chat on the phone today about Superfoos. I think we agreed that there will be multiple instances of agents emerging in the level immediately above humans but there is always a single top-level network in local space. I think we also agreed that the...

Eben Pagan’s Birthday Webinar...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Health, Philanthropy, Poverty, Scarcity / Abundance on 12 23rd, 2008 | View Comments

This year for his birthday, Eben decided to host this webinar and invited all his contacts to join him online in lieu of a party and gifts. What a brilliant concept and even more brilliant execution. Eben (and Scott Brandon Hoffman, founder of CharityWater.org) truly epitomize the new philanthropy. ...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Agency, Artificial Intelligence, Emergence, Epistemology, Levels, Models, Networks, Singularity, Socio-technical systems, Superorganism on 12 23rd, 2008 | View Comments

Response to Superorganism as Terminology. I was actually about to post something about terminology, so I'm glad this came up. It's just so difficult to choose words to describe concepts that have little precedent, without going to the extreme of overloading on the one end (e.g. "organism") or the other...

Great Nutrition Tips...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Health, Nutrition, Obesity on 12 22nd, 2008 | View Comments

I've plugged Dr. Ann before on this blog, but this 13 minute video is definitely worth checking out, esp. during the holidays. Ignore the marketing and just listen to the information and tips. The science of nutrition is extremely complex, but there are some well-understood principles that Dr. Ann...

Greening the Bailout...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Alternative Institutions, Climate, Government, Interventions, Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance on 12 21st, 2008 | View Comments

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Poetic Justice in the Financial Crisis...

Posted by kevindick in Markets on 12 19th, 2008 | View Comments

Bloomberg reports that Credit Suisse has decided to pay managing directors' and directors' bonuses in the form of an ownership interest in the bank's toxic mortgage-backed assets. The value of these assets will emerge over the next eight years as the assets mature or default. This is outstanding! The...

Superorganism as Terminology...

Posted by kevindick in Superorganism on 12 18th, 2008 | View Comments

Response to: Response to "Superorganism Considered Harmful" I liked Rafe's responses to my questions. It revealed the heart of the matter. From the perspective of an interdisciplinarian such as myself, I believe the concept of a "superorganism" is purely a matter of terminology. There are three terms of...

Your Seat at the Table...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Alternative Institutions, Crowdsourcing, Government, Politics on 12 18th, 2008 | View Comments

The Obama Transition team wants your input on how to fix the country: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9xYOlxLK5M] No, seriously. Check out the various meetings they have upcoming and the comments sections that go with each. Some topics like Health Care have lots of comments. Others like the...

Embodied Cognition...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Psychology on 12 17th, 2008 | View Comments

Until recently, Artificial Intelligence research has been grounded on a theory of cognition that is based on symbolic reasoning. That is, somewhere in our heads the concepts are represented symbolically and reasoned about via deduction and induction. At long last, AI researchers are truly learning from...

Cancer as Evolution, part 4...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Cancer, Evolution, Invisible Etiology, Medical Breakthroughs on 12 15th, 2008 | View Comments

For those who missed the first three parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Any underlying theme of this thread is how reliance on reductionism causes us to miss the key invisible etiologies that are necessary to make progress on understanding, treating, detecting and preventing cancer. In the first three parts...

The New Model for Primary Care Medicine...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Alternative Institutions, Medical Breakthroughs, Pop!Tech, Social Networks on 12 14th, 2008 | View Comments

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The Return of Public Discourse...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Culture, Language, Media, Superorganism on 12 13th, 2008 | View Comments

We are living in a time wherein the sound bite is the modal and most influential form of public discourse. Which is unfortunate because of its unidirectional, one-to-many nature. I'm happy to report though that I see the signs of a return to more meaningful conversation in the form of online video. This...

Response to "Superorganism Consider...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Agency, Climate, Emergence, Government, Levels, Markets, Models, Networks, Singularity, Socio-technical systems, Superorganism, Technology on 12 10th, 2008 | View Comments

This is a response to Kevin's post responding to my post. Rafe makes an analogy to cells within a multicellular organism. How does this support the assertion that there will only be one superorganism and that we will need to subjugate our needs to its own? Obviously, there are many multicellular organisms....

Behavior and Emotions as Virus...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Epidemiology, Infection, Invisible Etiology, Memes, Obesity on 12 9th, 2008 | View Comments

We've talked about obesity as a virus and violence as a virus, both well-supported by the research. Now there's happiness as a virus. Hardly a surprise, but I guess for new paradigms to become the accepted basis for organizing scientific thinking, they first have to become banal. So let's bring it on,...

Group Selection Meme on the Rise...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Evolution, Models, Science on 12 8th, 2008 | View Comments

This is from a recent Seed Magazine article. Click on the image to enlarge...

The Emergent Universe...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Emergence, Invisible Etiology, Networks, TED, Visualization on 12 6th, 2008 | View Comments

In a previous post I asked what you thought this was: Here is the same system at different resolutions (lowest to highest): Yes, it's the structure of the universe once you add in various different kinds of information, including cosmic background radiation, dark matter, etc. The last image...

Living Things...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Visualization on 12 4th, 2008 | View Comments

Without looking up the term Mpc/h, do you know what the above photo is? I'll give you some hints. It's not a neural network like this: And it's not a mushroom like this: Nor is it the internet which looks like this: And it's not even the relationships in the world of music which looks like...

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