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Ever wish you could reinvent the entire systems of government you live under without starting a costly war, revolution or having to win an election?  No?  Well, Patri Friedman has (wondered, that is).  And so has a growing number of seasteaders, ordinary folks (and the occasional PayPal billionaire).  Or...

One of the hidden themes of The Feast this past week has been how to scale successful social ventures.  This has been on my mind a lot recently as I have been working informally with both Self Enhancement, Inc. (SEI) and Decision Education Foundation (DEF) on this puzzle.  SEI is extremely successful...

Just not for "remembering" things.  We are not memory machines, we are learning machines: “Reconsolidation research has helped foster a growing sense that the flexibility of memory might be functional—an advantage rather than a bug in the brain. Reconsolidation might be how we update our store of...

I apologize for the non-existent blogging the past few weeks.  I've been really busy with my new company.  I'm going to try blogging more short items rather than my trademark essays in the hope that reduced barrier to entry will result in more supply. First up is a provocative post by the ever-interesting...

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Heng, et al recently published a review paper that brings together and touches on many different aspects of cancer complexity.  I thought this an opportunity to selectively quote the paper and organize the quotes loosely around various complex systems concepts they relate to.  I'm curious whether this...

Kevin just posted about a great article by Felix Salmon in Wired.  I underlined three quotes in my reading of it: "Correlation trading has spread through the psyche of the financial markets like a highly infectious thought virus." (Tavakoli) "...the real danger was created not because any given trader...

I try not to practice false modesty (those of you who know me well probably just did a spit take at that understatement).  So while I try to stand up and admit when I'm wrong, I also like to stand up and point out where I'm right. It shouldn't be a surprise to any of you that I came to the conclusion that...

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I was recently having a conversation with a mutual friend of Rafe's and mine.  Like the two of us, he's quite smart, well educated, and socially aware.  I respect his thinking a lot. However, during the course of this conversation, it became clear to me that he holds what I think of as an overly moralistic...

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...

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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...

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....

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An incidentaloma according to wikipedia is "a tumor (-oma) found by coincidence (incidental) without clinical symptoms or suspicion."  The provocative NY Times article below suggests that indolent tumors (i.e. ones that do not need treatment) may come and go as a normal part of life.  With better detection...

The following is a recent paper by Henry Heng published in JAMA.  I've linked concepts mentioned in the paper to corresponding explications from this blog. JAMA. 2008;300(13):1580-1581. The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism Henry H. Q. Heng, PhD Author Affiliations: Center for...

Remember Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis about 80s Wall Street excess?  Well, he has a terrific article on some guys who saw the subprime meltdown coming and bet heavily on it.  It's great narrative and a reminder that whenever someone's model departs substantially from reality, there is an arbitrage...

I am a fan of prediction markets.   They have typically done much better than polls at predicting the outcome of elections.  Why?  Here's a thought experiment.  Consider who you think is going to win the election (not who you want to win).  Now consider that I was going to bet you $10,000 of your hard...