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Should Scientists (Complexity Dudes At That) Help Solve The Economic Woes?

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, economics, finance, science, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now here’s a MEATY discussion on Edge.org about the role scientists should play in helping improve the economic conditions.  Chew on this awhile.
Here’s one of my favorite chunks of the discussion lifted from George Dyson’s comments:
Brown, Kauffman, Palmrose, and Smolin have hit the nail on the head. But is it the right nail? When the [...]

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But wait Dan Ariely, there’s more…

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We know that behavior is not simple but there are simple behavioral components that keep getting ignored. Relative to what we all experience in life like conflicts in the Dan Ariely remarks below and in a previous blog on this site.… we recognize his statements on habits, good and bad, etc.  Yet there is a second [...]

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Predictability in Finance

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, information theory, mathematics, media, tagged , , , , on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The news is a maniacal scramble to make sense of the current financial situation around the world.
Predictions, ____ expert from _____ investment research firm, advice, soothsaying, modeling, bear vs. bull, Fed should do this, Fed shouldn’t do this…. and so on.
A truth I got comfortable with a long time ago but had reinforced over the [...]

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My Only MetaPhysical Question I Ask Legitimately

Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, science, social science, tagged , , , on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

If the universe (our experience, our lives, our physical reality) weren’t complex (unpredictable, undecidable) what would it be?
This is not rhetorical question.
It is not easy either.
Can you imagine an alternative?
It would be useful if we could so we can go look for evidence of the thing you imagine.  Why would we do this?  The growing [...]

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Identifying what we value and what we fear

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On any given day in the US in 2008 an average of about 148,000 people will die. Yawn. As the population swells it will grow larger. Yawn. As the population struggles with food, water, disease, contamination and war, those numbers will fluctuate higher and higher. Yawn. For many of us the numbers are so [...]

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