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🚀 We are live! Here is the correct streaming link for all of today's discussions and performances, starting with a panel on complex time with David Krakauer, James Gleick, Ted Chiang, and David Wolpert in a few moments (measured linearly...):
#IPFest
#IPFest
"One of the ideas we had with #InterPlanetary was, 'What would it take to make science hedonistic? And instead of telling people to do it, you'd have to tell people to STOP doing it?"
- SFI President David Krakauer sets the tone for this weekend's celebrations
#IPFest
- SFI President David Krakauer sets the tone for this weekend's celebrations
#IPFest
David Krakauer: "Do you have a favorite model or metaphor for #time?"
@JamesGleick: "You've already mentioned a river; that's everybody's favorite. Borges said time is a tiger. People talk about it as a thread. We ONLY talk about time in metaphors."
@JamesGleick: "You've already mentioned a river; that's everybody's favorite. Borges said time is a tiger. People talk about it as a thread. We ONLY talk about time in metaphors."
"Harnessing #SocialCapital to Enhance Collective Welfare" — our final Community Lecture of the season, starting in a few moments (7:30 pm Mountain).
Follow this 🧵 for highlights from the panel, and tune in to the YouTube stream:
#Economics #Inequality
Follow this 🧵 for highlights from the panel, and tune in to the YouTube stream:
#Economics #Inequality
In 2009 @TIME named @NAChristakis of @Yale, one of our panelists tonight, one of the top 100 most influential people in the world. His clever experiments examine the spread of altruism, emotions, & health behaviors in both virtual & real-world settings.
humannaturelab.net/people/nichola…
humannaturelab.net/people/nichola…
Our next panelist, SFI Ext Prof @JacksonmMatt of @Stanford, is a highly-awarded economist & the author of The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, & Behaviors:
web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/book…
His episode of #ComplexityPodcast:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12
web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/book…
His episode of #ComplexityPodcast:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12
"The key question around the #GreenEnergy transition is technological progress, and which technologies would improve..."
- SFI Prof J. Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
Follow this 🧵 for insights from today's seminar, streaming now on our YouTube channel:
- SFI Prof J. Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
Follow this 🧵 for insights from today's seminar, streaming now on our YouTube channel:
"We're tracking the evolution of the global #energy landscape over about 140 years: which source is providing our energy, and how much is it providing us with?"
- SFI Prof J. Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
Speaking now:
#Solar #Wind #Nuclear #Oil #Gas #Coal
- SFI Prof J. Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
Speaking now:
#Solar #Wind #Nuclear #Oil #Gas #Coal
"#FossilFuels cost about the same now as they did a century ago. #Renewables have been dropping in price at rates of about 10% a year and deployment has been shooting up at about 30% a year, and this has been continuing for several decades."
- J. Doyne Farmer (SFI, @INETOxford)
- J. Doyne Farmer (SFI, @INETOxford)
🧵@UpshotNYT on new research in @Nature, co-authored by SFI External Professor @JacksonmMatt, on what @facebook data reveals about class, friendship, and economic mobility:
More at @CBSNews:
From the paper:
"It is clear that a booming economy does not guarantee better outcomes for local children."
From the paper:
"It is clear that a booming economy does not guarantee better outcomes for local children."
"The Evolution of Strangers and Foreigners"
🧵 Today's SFI Seminar by @DoctorBugs (@Smithsonian)
santafe.edu/events/life-an…
cc @templeton_fdn
🧵 Today's SFI Seminar by @DoctorBugs (@Smithsonian)
santafe.edu/events/life-an…
cc @templeton_fdn
First, a loop back to his LAST (2020) SFI Seminar on 3D structure of living systems from biofilms to rainforest canopies:
And his #ComplexityPodcast episode on ideas from that talk and this one:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/52-Z7…
And his #ComplexityPodcast episode on ideas from that talk and this one:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/52-Z7…
"People often think of societies as cooperative, but some societies are NOT very cooperative. I prefer to put the focus on them as groups."
"Societies are just one aspect of belonging. There are groups *within* societies & that's what psychologists mostly focus on."
@DoctorBugs
"Societies are just one aspect of belonging. There are groups *within* societies & that's what psychologists mostly focus on."
@DoctorBugs
1/n 🧵 ICYMI "Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality"
New paper (@UChicagoPress) led by José Lobo (@ASU) & co-authored by a team incl. SFI's @BettencourtLuis (@miurbanchicago) & Scott Ortman (@CUBoulder), result of an SFI working group:
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…
New paper (@UChicagoPress) led by José Lobo (@ASU) & co-authored by a team incl. SFI's @BettencourtLuis (@miurbanchicago) & Scott Ortman (@CUBoulder), result of an SFI working group:
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…
2/n
This new research deploys #ScalingLaw insights to understand the population-density driven transition from temporary hunter-gatherer settlements to permanent sedentary city life.
This new research deploys #ScalingLaw insights to understand the population-density driven transition from temporary hunter-gatherer settlements to permanent sedentary city life.
3/n
Previous research on the impact of densification on the transition into city life has yielded conflicting results, some suggesting that hunter-gatherer groups actually thin out as they scale. (In what ways might this reflect transitions in the scaling of microbial organisms?)
Previous research on the impact of densification on the transition into city life has yielded conflicting results, some suggesting that hunter-gatherer groups actually thin out as they scale. (In what ways might this reflect transitions in the scaling of microbial organisms?)
“We looked at the price of #coal over 140 years. Mines are much more sophisticated, the technology for locating new deposits is much better. Prices have not come down.”
- SFI's Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
@billmckibben on #Petro v #CleanEnergy @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/news/essay/in-…
- SFI's Doyne Farmer (@INETOxford)
@billmckibben on #Petro v #CleanEnergy @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/news/essay/in-…
For more on the #CleanEnergy transition, check out this press release, 44-page report, and video presentation on the science and economics supporting the argument for NM to make the leap — authored by SFI Profs Blumsack, Hines, Moore, and Trancik:
santafe.edu/research/proje…
santafe.edu/research/proje…
And for more Doyne Farmer, check out our conversation with him last year on #ComplexityPodcast, in which we discuss his work on the declining cost of #WindPower & #Solar (but not #Nuclear) in the broader frame of #ComplexityEconomics:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/56
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/56
"Even as possible discoveries are announced, they arrive with debate & quickly fizzle because we cannot confirm #AlienLife has actually been discovered."
SFI/@ASU's @Sara_Imari argues for a more fundamental theory of #biology in @Slate's @FutureTenseNow:
slate.com/technology/202…
SFI/@ASU's @Sara_Imari argues for a more fundamental theory of #biology in @Slate's @FutureTenseNow:
slate.com/technology/202…
“What should a #UniversalTheory for life look like? It will have to account for features of #LivingSystems that no current laws of #Physics and #Chemistry can explain. That is, it will have to pinpoint processes in the universe that occur only because of life."
- @Sara_Imari
- @Sara_Imari
For more on Agnostic #Biosignature Detection (aka, how to look for life that looks nothing like the life we know), check out our episode of #ComplexityPodcast with SFI Fellow @nataliegref:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/41
#Astrobiology #ET #Aliens
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/41
#Astrobiology #ET #Aliens
