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Name That Financial Debacle!4 comments

rafefurst wrote 3 months ago: The following quotes are from a book describing a real set of events: [The incident] is an extraordi … more →

Tags: Government, Markets, Interventions, incentives, Economics, interconnectedness

Best Reader Comment Award1 comment

rafefurst wrote 7 months ago: I’m giving my “2009 Q1 award for most concise, lucid comment” to Paul Phillips for … more →

Tags: stability, Autocatalysis, Markets, blog comment, incentives, Economics, interconnectedness

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly1 comment

rafefurst wrote 7 months ago: A few articles on the economy that were sent my way recently. The Good: After Capitalism (Geoff Mulg … more →

Tags: Limits of Knowledge, Culture, stability, Society, Epistemology, Markets, Interventions, Scarcity / Abundance, Social Entrepreneurship

Alfred Hubler on Stabilizing CAS6 comments

rafefurst wrote 7 months ago: With his permission, I am posting an email thread between myself and Alfred Hubler.  I had contacted … more →

Tags: Networks, Alternative Institutions, Causality, stability, Management, Autocatalysis, Self-Fullfilling Prophecy, Markets, Socio-technical systems

Cold Fusion11 comments

rafefurst wrote 7 months ago: I remember reading this Wired article in 1998 suggesting that the “debunking” of cold fu … more →

Tags: Science, Invisible Etiology

Branching and Random Nodes

thinkingworlds wrote 8 months ago: A key strength of Immersive Sims and Serious Games lies in their non-linearity. The means by which a … more →

Tags: Tutorials, Branching, nodes, simple branch, StoryBoard, thinking worlds, wires

Climate Shifts as a Complex Systems Property1 comment

kevindick wrote 8 months ago: Via a post at the always terrific Watts Up with That, a pre publication version of this paper examin … more →

Tags: stability, Climate, Science

Chasing the Dragon7 comments

rafefurst wrote 9 months ago: Kevin just posted about a great article by Felix Salmon in Wired.  I underlined three quotes in my r … more →

Tags: Alternative Institutions, stability, Psychology, models, Markets, Interventions, Memes, incentives, Economics

Must Read Article on the Financial Meltdown2 comments

kevindick wrote 9 months ago: Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, an excellent article in Wired about how one formula, embodyi … more →

Tags: Markets, Socio-technical systems, Economics

What Part of Fragile do you not Understand?

wizardx wrote 10 months ago: They have heard it a million times over the past decade. I’ve gone hoarse trying to get my ele … more →

Tags: fragility, Complexity, Society, Civilisation, Civilization, redundancy, Probability

Symposium Proposal

rafefurst wrote 10 months ago: There is a proposed symposium on “Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect: Views fro … more →

Tags: Point of Order

The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: The following is a recent paper by Henry Heng published in JAMA.  I’ve linked concepts mention … more →

Tags: Cancer, Levels, emergence, Causality, Evolution, Cooperation, models, Autism, Epistemology

Quick Rundown on the Singularity Summit11 comments

kevindick wrote 1 year ago: I attended the Singularity Summit today. Overall, it was worth the time spent.  I did not attend the … more →

Tags: Socio-technical systems, technology, Singularity

Predicting the 2008 Presidential Election

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: I am a fan of prediction markets.   They have typically done much better than polls at predicting th … more →

Tags: models, crowdsourcing, Markets, Politics

Don't Cop Out on Knightian Uncertainty

kevindick wrote 1 year ago: I apologize for the posting lull. I actually spotted an issue than I wanted to address a few weeks a … more →

Tags: Markets, Climate, Science

Non-linear1 comment

lararosenoff wrote 1 year ago: So, I thought about my non-linear project like this: How can the idea of non-linearity tie into my c … more →

Tags: DM 8106, genocide

Non-linearity

alexismitchell wrote 1 year ago: I thought a lot about how to subvert linearity through non-linear art forms. I’m interested in … more →

Tags: MFA Documentary Media, dm8106, New Media, Rock Climbing, repetition, Documentary

Notes from TED10 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: Here are some notes that I took at TED 2008.  I have a bunch more on each of the speakers individual … more →

Tags: Limits of Knowledge, Levels, emergence, Networks, Government, Alternative Institutions, Culture, agency, Cooperation

Parrondo's Paradox and Poker4 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: Parrondo’s paradox is the well-known counterintuitive situation where individually losing strategies … more →

Tags: Games, Poker


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