Showing posts with label emergence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergence. Show all posts
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Civilization, complexity and the limits of human cognition - another attempt at explaining the 21st century

›
The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Trumpism: a transition function to the world of mass disability.

›
We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...
1 comment:
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Aetna's unethical cost savings are enabled by the "arbitration" laws purchased by large corporations

›
The New York Times did a superb series this fall on how large corporations changed American law to neutralize a major consumer protection — ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Happy accident fraud - Feds move on Aetna and other health insurers with deceptive provider listings

›
Happy accident frauds are emergent frauds — nobody needs to plan them. Don’t put your Disability Claims office on the fifth floor of a bui...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

IT and productivity - two noteworthy posts from Equitable Growth

›
Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Dynamic stability: struggle and balance in minds, brains, genomes, pregnancy, politics, ecosystems and economies

›
The minds we experience  are based on multiple overlapping, redundant and competitive brain systems (I don’t get the term “degeneracy” btw) ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Humbug - Amazon, Apple and Pottermore

›
In the spirit of the season, which science tells us is Scrooge before his psychotic break, a call out to Amazon, Pottermore, and Apple. To ...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Human pregnancy is a dynamic struggle - implications for eco-econ, corporate power and secular stagnation

›
At the “ Spherical Cow ” level of simplification, human pregnancy is a dynamic tension control system , a kind of brain and gene motivated c...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Who killed American broadcast TV time-shifting -- and how did they do it?

›
I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...
6 comments:
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry

›
I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

How could we create an evidence-based classification of disorders of the mind?

›
The software/hardware metaphor is usually considered as misleading as every other model of mind we've come up with. I don't agree. ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.

›
Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...
6 comments:
Saturday, March 09, 2013

We do not understand the world in which we live

›
It is always this way, on the micro and the macro. I didn't understand high school until college. I didn't understand medical school...
Monday, September 03, 2012

Do evolutionary strategies evolve?

›
Biologists study evolutionary "strategies", such as r and K selection . These are the strategies deployed the Great Programmer as...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Why quality collapsed in the bubble years: Akerlof and the last good toaster

›
Six years ago, I mourned for the demise of t he last good toaster . I could find lots of cheap toasters, but they didn't last long. It ...
7 comments:
Sunday, January 08, 2012

Rule 34 by Charlie Stross - my review

›
I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

Ants, corporations and the great stagnation

›
Do the great stagnation failures of the research enterprise and the modern publicly traded corporation have the same roots? Are not both ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

What Steve Jobs teaches about psyche and adaptive advantage

›
Steve Jobs bachelor party consisted of him, a reluctant Avie Tevanian, and one other guy. At that point in his life, he had no true friends....
3 comments:
Thursday, November 24, 2011

iPhone micro: How SMS pricing is accelerating the smartphone transition

›
I've been playing with a simplified model of the carrier-locked AT&T American 2011 iPhone marketplace. I think it makes some interes...
2 comments:
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Too much history

›
One of the reasons I blog is to engage with a fascinating world, and to track the streams of history. I'm finding that harder to do....