My new piece on how LLMs change the physics of deliberation (and democracy)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interview with Phillip Ball on his book of how life works

By ignoring the work,student do not find themselves. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

`` I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” Joseph Conrad

@sfiscience.bsky.social
@umich.edu

Wide ranging discussion on all things complex and unequal with Steven Durlauf podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Pleased to announce that The Difference has been reissued as a Princeton Classic!! press.princeton.edu/collections/...

Thought provoking essay on AI as a cultural and social technology, opposed to as an augmenter or agent.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

I organized a department salon on the double descent phenomenon - as you add more parameters you can overcome bias -variance tradeoff. Two key slides and cite attached.

Great piece on probability,expected value, loss aversion, decision making and volatility by Michael Mauboussin

In countries with fewer cross gender online “friends” women’s labor participation rates are lower

Moderna created 750 GPTs in house openai.com/index/moderna/ The brilliant Brice Challamel explains how in this exhilarating podcast www.beyondtheprompt.ai AI is assistant, expert, coach, and co-creator. Everyone is now a 5 person team! Using AI is not nearly as risky as not using AI!

Creativity Test from my Collective Intelligence Course. Make a list of DOG names s.t. each sequential pair is a "funny" combination

Example:

1. Pecan

2. Butter

3. Peanut

4. Mister

5. Rogers

6. Jolly

7. Rancher

Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, ..

Teaching Collective Intelligence. A thread is how institutions - markets, democracies, organizations, communities and algorithms - enable better coordination. Website tracking effect of NYCs new congestion pricing policy (a move from self-organization to market)
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

I'm happy to be joining Bluesky. I'll be posting on collective intelligence, diversity, mechanism design, models, and matters arising