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The premier research center for #complexsystems #science . @complexexplorer @sfipress #ComplexityPodcast

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🎉 SFI turns 40 this year! For this landmark in SFI’s history, we are sharing glimpses from SFI’s early years as a hub for #ComplexityScience . 📷 Here’s a throwback to SFI’s 15th anniversary! #TBT
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We're sorry to announce the passing of @NobelPrize Laureate and complexity giant Murray Gell-Mann, one of the 20th Century's greatest physicists – pioneer, SFI co-founder, prophet of the quark. You inspired so many, Murray. You will be missed. A tribute:
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RIP John Conway... Organisms may be mortal but the Game of Life goes on forever.
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Farewell to mathematician John Conway. For us, complexity scientists, he will be remembered by the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life, that inspired so many ideas about complexity, computation and life itself. @sfiscience @svalver
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What Is Complexity? To celebrate @ComplexExplorer 's ten-year anniversary, here's SFI President David Krakauer with a brand-new 30-minute lecture on this fundamental question. Learn what distinguishes complex systems and the approaches used to study them:
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Wonderful news! SFI Trustee @B3_MillerValue just gave us the largest donation in the Institute's history — possibly the largest single contribution to complex systems research ever — which he calls "a bet on the future of humanity." 🥳 THANK YOU, BILL! 🎉
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Santa Fe Institute receives $50 million from Bill Miller

In the largest single donation in its history, the nonprofit Santa Fe Institute will receive $50 million from legendary investor Bill Miller. The gift will advance the Institute's pioneering science...

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Novelist Cormac McCarthy, SFI trustee and Life Fellow passed away on Tuesday, June 13, at his home in Santa Fe. We are immensely saddened by his loss. His voracious mind and near-infinite interests will continue to inspire us.
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In memoriam: Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the greatest American novelists, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, at his home in Santa Fe. He was 89 years old.

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This is the #textbook we've been waiting for! A beautiful new volume by SFI External Prof Stefan Thurner et al. at @CSHVienna ( @UniofOxford Press) synthesizes 100s of disparate findings, identifying what all #complex #systems have in common: #complexity
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Transcend disciplinary boundaries, take intellectual risks, and ask big questions about complex systems! Deadlines close January 15th for SFI's #Complex #Systems #SummerSchool ( #CSSS ) - 4 weeks of intensive research with mentorship by world experts:
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SFI External Prof Mark Newman has updated his classic textbook on networks to reflect the many recent advances in the field. "Networks, second edition" will be released soon.
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Theoretical physicist @carlorovelli joins SFI’s Fractal Faculty. “The breadth and the kinds of questions asked at SFI resonate with me,” he says. He's interested in questions that challenge our perceptions of temporality, entropy, & the asymmetry of time.
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Remembering @danieldennett , a beloved figure at SFI known for his work on consciousness and evolutionary biology. He passed away on April 19 at the age of 82. His contributions to philosophical debates were profound & his legacy will continue to inspire.
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This week at SFI: " #Complexity and the Structure of #Music : Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures", an #interdisciplinary working group assembled to explore new frameworks for understanding music. Stay tuned for highlights!
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Congratulations to SFI External Prof @seanmcarroll of @Caltech , just named an @aaas Fellow for "distinguished contributions to cosmology, gravity, & dark matter research [and] exceptional contributions in communicating & promoting science to the public"!
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Sean Carroll, a research professor of physics at Caltech and communicator of science, trustee David Chavez (BS '96), and 10 additional Caltech alumni have been elected as fellows of the American...

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In his book “Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World,” SFI’s @doyne_farmer challenges traditional economic theory, offering an alternative: #ComplexityEconomics . 💡 Farmer argues for a shift from flawed assumptions to a more nuanced understanding of human…
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Shannon #InformationTheory doesn't adequately handle #meaning (i.e., tell us whether mutual information is mutually understood). Here's a 1-minute animation on a new paper by SFI Postdoc Artemy Kolchinsky & Bernat Corominas-Mutra: #information
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📚 Paul Smaldino’s ( @psmaldino ) new book, “Modeling Social Behavior.” explores the power of computational modeling to understand why misinformation spreads, cooperation falters, and vaccination hesitancy persists.
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Within the apparent constant flow of time are hidden variables and discreet timesteps, explain two papers by physicists at SFI and MIT, who stumbled on the finding while searching for the most energy-efficient way to flip a bit of computer information.
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The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world

physicists at the Santa Fe Institute and MIT have shown that Markov processes, widely used to model complex systems, must unfold over a larger space than previously assumed.

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"The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future" Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium: #Web3 #Cities #Polarization #EmergentEngineering #Decentralization
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🛸 Applications are open for SFI’s 2024 Complex Systems Summer School, a 4-week residential research program in Santa Fe, Jun 9 - Jul 5, 2024. For graduate students, postdocs, & professionals. Scholarships available. 🛎️ Apply by Feb 1. Please RT!
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Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods SFI Pres. David Krakauer co-authored roadmap for the development & integration of the essential algorithms necessary for a merger of scientific computing, scientific simulation, & AI:
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RIP Freeman Dyson...a legendary mind. "I grew up in the '30s, which was a really black time. Having survived that, you can never really take pessimism seriously." Here's his chat with former SFI trustee @stewartbrand ( @longnow ) for @WIRED : #solarpunk
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Cormac McCarthy spent the last quarter century writing his novels at SFI. In this documentary from December 2017, Cormac in conversation with SFI President David Krakauer, reflects on isolation, mathematics, character, and the nature of the unconscious:
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Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David...

Cormac McCarthy has spent the last quarter century writing his novels at the mountain top retreat of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico, an institute...

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#TBT ☀️ In 1993, SFI Prof Cris Moore, while still a postdoc, discovered that three stars of equal mass can chase each other around a #figure -8 orbit, describing a braid in space-time. His paper, which included hand-drawn figures, was published in @PhysRevLett .
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🎙️ Trailer for “Physics of Life,” the first season of SFI’s Complexity podcast relaunch! 🌠 Embark on a journey into complexity science as we explore underlying universal laws of life. 🗓️ Pilot launches on Jan 31st! Be part of the exploration! 🚀
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Complexity Podcast - Trailer

Physics of Life seasonAre there universal laws of life and can we find them? Is there a physics of society, of ecology, of evolution? Join us for thought-pro...

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"The most pragmatic problem is the future of this planet, and its survival. And I think one of the great disgraces of academic economists is that they're not at the forefront of this. It's morally reprehensible that they're not leading the way." - Geoffrey West
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"NOTHING about the backbone of the #ribosome has changed in four billion years of evolution. I like to talk to geologists about this; this is as old as any mineral." - Loren Williams of @GeorgiaTech on the most #conservative aspect of #biology : translation of #information
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🏅 Please RT: Applications are open for the SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! We offer scholars unparalleled intellectual freedom & support for transdisciplinary research into the biggest questions facing science & society. Apply before 10/24/21:
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"After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the 1980s..." New work led by SFI's @MartenScheffer :
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The rise and fall of rationality in language | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The surge of post-truth political argumentation suggests that we are living in a special historical period when it comes to the balance between emo...

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"A revolutionary idea in #complexity #science could be as revolutionary in #economics as in cell #biology , #neuroscience , and #sociology . What better argument could there be for pursuing a career in complexity science? - SFI President David Krakauer:
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NEW COMPLEXITY ECONOMICS

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Today's talk is with neuroscientist #KarlFriston of @ucl , who will offer a heuristic proof suggesting that life is an inevitable emergent property of any weakly mixing random dynamical system that possesses a #Markov blanket. Tune in here at 12:15 PM MT:
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"The Evolution of Agency" Follow this thread for highlights from today's seminar by @WiringTheBrain of @trinitycollege . Watch without login on Facebook (we will post the recording to YouTube within 24 hours):
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" #Economics in #Nouns and #Verbs " Below, we share key excerpts from SFI External Prof W. Brian Arthur's ( @Stanford , @PARCinc ) latest, available at , which we recommend for its elucidation of key blind spots in economic thinking & how to address them...
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Geoffrey West discusses scaling, from cells to cities, with @SamHarrisOrg on the Waking Up podcast
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Q: How quickly does society forget? A: Shorter than you'd like to think. Fascinating research from some #complexity #science greats on the half-life of collective #memory and #attention :
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Collective memory: How does society forget? @crcandiav @cesifoti @NatureHumBehav study of patents, citations, songs, movies+sports biographies finds oral transmission dynamics+physical recording interact to produce a complex memory that decays in 2 phases
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On #InternationalWomensDay we'd like to pause and celebrate just a small slice of the enormous contributions to science women have made here at SFI. Read the thread below for links to some of their own favorite research papers, and a few nominated by other SFI faculty members:
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Today's Applied Complexity Symposium begins with a panel on Computation and Complex Economies, feat. Rob Axtell, Joshua Epstein, @C4COMPUTATION , Blake LeBaron, John Miller, & @MelMitchell1 (Follow this thread for live coverage all day...) #complexsystems #economics
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📣 Applications for the 2024 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open! If you’ve finished your PhD and are interested in transdisciplinary #research , consider applying for this unique #fellowship at SFI. For more info and to apply see here 👉
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"I like to think the most valuable words in investment are, 'It will rot your brain' - because whenever parents say that, that's the next $10B industry." - @wolfejosh today on the counterintuitive truth that, as Philip K Dick said, #innovation first appears "in the trash stratum"
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More great #pandemic journalism from @zeynep at @TheAtlantic  helps explain why #R0 & #flu -conditioned #epidemiology isn't adequate for understanding #COVID19 . SFI's @svscarpino weighs in on what other measures matter more, and why: #superspreader #pareto
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Geoffrey West's long-awaited book, Scale, pulls together 25 years worth of research
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🏆 SFI Professor @MelMitchell1 receives the 2023 Senior Scientific Award from the @CompSysSoc for her outstanding contributions to #AI , #ComplexityScience , and education.
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🎙️ Dive into the pilot episode of the Complexity podcast’s Physics of Life season! “What can physics tell us about ourselves?” From the limits of lifespans to the capacity of our brains, discover physics sheds light on our connection to the world.
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“Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill & luck,” according to SFI's @mjmauboussin , cited in this article @sciam . To quantify this relationship, a team of Italian physicists ran some simulations. Here is what they found:
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In a surprising yet entirely overdue decision, the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded for groundbreaking contributions to complex systems theory with half of the award going to Giorgio Parisi ( @giorgioparisi ) 1/n
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"The problem of collectives is the most important problem of our society today." - SFI's Mirta Galesic on a workshop she recently organized with @HochTwit & @jeremyvancleve . More from this event, including videos and excerpted insights, coming soon:
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Constructing — and deconstructing — collectives

From fireflies to ants to microbes to humans, we all form collectives. Figuring out how that happens can help us understand our responses to some of the world’s biggest challenges. A January workshop...

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🎙️ Episode 2 of Complexity: Physics of Life is out now! Join us as we explore how life originated on Earth and how we might identify it in other parts of the universe.
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"We are the force of the universe." 🔭 Geoffrey West on the power of mathematics, morals, ethics, and collective consciousness. Check out episode 3 of Dispatches from The Well by @bigthink .
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Tonight & Tomorrow at 7:30 pm Mountain, join us for Mathematical Stories with @StevenStrogatz — 2022 Ulam Memorial Lectures at @TheLensic + Online. Stream links: • The Story of #Calculus • The Story of #Sync We'll be tweeting!
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The Story of Sync - Steven Strogatz 2022 Ulam Memorial Lecture 2/2

Steven Strogatz, Cornell University Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series Lecture2 Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of male fire...

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What makes an explanation good enough? The most enchantingly simple explanations often clash with complex ones that account for the world more fully. New work by @ZacharyDW & SFI's @SimonDeDeo connects #Science & #ConspiracyTheory via #BayesTheorem :
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New paper: What makes an explanation good enough?

What makes an explanation good enough? As a personal matter, people have different answers to this question, and not all of them agree, says a new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Simon DeDeo...

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A humbling moment for #machinelearning : new research by SFI Postdoc Kolchinsky et al. adds major caveats to current theory on deep neural networks..."information bottlenecking" isn't what we thought. Article: Paper: #prediction #AI
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Information theory holds surprises for machine learning

New research challenges a popular conception of how machine learning algorithms “think” about certain tasks.

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#GDP is broken. We need a new measure for the growth of individual income (democratic), not average income (plutocratic). SFI's @ole_b_peters of @LdnMathLab offers up the math for #DDP , a revolutionary lens for #economics : #wealth #math #inequality
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Despite the staggering diversity of organisms, there are universal laws that govern their physiology. How these laws lured Geoffrey West away from mainstream physics is the subject of this excellent podcast with @seanmcarroll .
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Geoffrey West tells @bigthink why we don't live for more than 100 years
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Why Don’t Humans Live for More than 100 Years? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideoJoin Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: htt...

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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
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🚀 #IPFest returns on Oct 22-23 for a full weekend of panels, keynotes, avant-garde performances, & films bringing #ComplexSystems science to the most pressing issues that face humankind as we explore the cosmos! Follow this 🧵 for updates & learn more at
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We are delighted to announce author Ted Chiang as our newest Miller Scholar! “One of the most influential science writers of his generation.” - The New Yorker Read more about his work and involvement:
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Science-fiction author Ted Chiang — author of 12 short stories, two novellas, and recipient of 27 major writing awards — joins SFI's Miller Scholars. 

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"A network is just an entity where the connections between parts matters more than the parts themselves... they embody a property scientists call complexity."
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The Big Idea Behind Big Data : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
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"Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty" New work in @NatureHumBehav led by @CUBoulder 's @alliecmorgan + a team incl. SFI's Mirta Galesic & @aaronclauset + former SFI Fellow @DanLarremore : "Faculty are up to 25x more likely to have a parent with a PhD."
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"To keep from getting tunnel vision, we need to manage our information flows." Our 1st speaker for this year's #AppliedComplexity Network Symposium is columnist, author, and anthropologist @gilliantett , Chair of @FT Editorial Board. Follow this thread for highlights all day...
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"We don't actually see things as they are. Our #brains are profoundly out of touch with #reality . ... There's a lossy #compression going on at every layer [of sense processing]. The challenge is getting the encoding right." - @SimonDeDeo (SFI, @CarnegieMellon ) Today at #CSSS19 :
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'To better understand complex financial markets, a growing number of economists are looking beyond math and physics to evolutionary biology.' @TheAtlantic features work by External Prof Doyne Farmer and his colleagues @INETOxford
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How Evolution Can Make Sense of the Stock Market

To help model complex and frequently erratic financial systems, some economists are turning to biology. 

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Journalists: Want to spend a month in Santa Fe learning about complex systems? Announcing the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School Journalism Fellowship. Paid, residential, no required reporting outcomes. Apply by Feb 28.
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Not one of our own books, but this looks like very worthy reading — a new book on #ComplexSystems by @yalepress : (SFI External Prof @seanmcarroll interviewed co-author James Ladyman on #Mindscape Podcast last year: )
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Mindscape Episode 33: James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity. #MindscapePodcast
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RIP evolutionary biologist and SFI Science Board member Richard Lewontin, whose passing at age 92 leaves behind a legacy of revolutionary population genetics research and tireless outspoken criticism of racist pseudoscience. Watch his SFI Ulam Lectures:
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In memoriam: Richard Lewontin

Richard Lewontin, 92, a revolutionary geneticist, evolutionary biologist, and longtime member of SFI’s science board, passed away in his home in Massachusetts on July 4. 

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#CollectiveIntelligence : Foundations + Radical Ideas Join us June 19-23 for a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more: Apps close 1 Feb 23. Space is limited!
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"Instead of averaging #wealth across parallel possibilities, [SFI's] @ole_b_peters advocates an approach that models how an individual's wealth evolves along a single path through time." One simple move to fix a central broken assumption in #economics :
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This 'fix' for economic theory changes everything from gambles to inequality to Ponzi schemes

Whether we decide to take out that insurance policy, buy Bitcoin, or switch jobs, many economic decisions boil down to a fundamental gamble about how to maximize our wealth over time. How we unders...

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🤩 Join us this summer for the 2023 Complex Systems Summer School, a 4-week residential research program hosted by SFI & IAIA (The Institute of American Indian Arts). For graduate students, postdocs, & professionals. Apps close Feb 1. (Please share!)
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It ain't easy being too weird to live and too rare to die.
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Sante Fe Institute feels like one of the rare places left that just fund people for doing interesting, generative projects for the sake of it
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#CollectiveIntelligence has fascinated scientists since the 1700s...but remains relatively underdeveloped as an area of complex systems research. Dig into our new #OpenAccess journal in collaboration with @SAGE_Publishing , @TheOfficialACM , and @nesta_uk :
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"If you take an economics textbook and do something useful with it, and throw it out a window, it will follow a parabola." SFI's @ole_b_peters ( @LdnMathLab ) on the relationship between #economics & #physics
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Why do so many major elections come so close? SFI's Stefan Bornholdt has a model based on the math of magnets: when messaging between sides is contentious and voters are repelled by ≥ 1/4 statements, a phase transition occurs and no clear winner emerges.
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🐦 Birds on a Wire New pre-print from SFI Professors Paul Krapivsky ( @BU_Tweets ) and Sidney Redner explores a "pushy birds" model for crowding and distribution of agents along both one- and many-dimensional substrates:
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SFI President David Krakauer introduces our annual board of trustees symposium on New #Complexity #Economics - follow this thread for live coverage of talks by @EricBeinhocker @AKStanger @ole_b_peters @JacksonmMatt @cmoncap & W. Brian Arthur today...
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🎉 Announcing #ComplexityEconomics from @SFIPress , edited by W. Brian Arthur, @EricBeinhocker , & @AKStanger , with @C4COMPUTATION , @ole_b_peters , @rajivatbarnard , @JacksonmMatt , @cmoncap , @Scott_E_Page , @mjmauboussin , @B3_MillerValue , @honeybeecap , & more:
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"You don't see radio changing gradually and suddenly become radar. #Darwin 's theory doesn't work for #technology , and we have to make a new observation." - W Brian Arthur at SFI today #evolution #innovation #invention
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It's here! Our new weekly #podcast shines a light on the pioneers of #complexsystems science & their cutting-edge research. 1st episodes with David Krakauer, Chris Kempes, Sarah Maurer, & @sabinehauert now available on all major distributors. Subscribe:
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COMPLEXITY: Physics of Life

Are there universal laws of life and can we find them? Is there a physics of society, of ecology, of evolution? Join us for six episodes of thought-provoking insights on the physics of life and its...

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🧵 Group project presentations begin today for the 2022 SFI Complex Systems Summer School! We will share bits and pieces over the next two days... #CSSS #ComplexSystems
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It's with great sadness that we report the passing of Former Science Board Chair Robert May, whose career boasted major contributions to physics, astrophysics, ecology, population bio, host-parasite & infectious disease dynamics, biodiversity, and finance:
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In memoriam: Robert May

Robert McCredie May, OM, the Lord May of Oxford, and a leading figure of theoretical ecology, died on April 28, 2020. Bob, as he was known to his many friends and colleagues, was 84 years old.

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🧬 An international team of researchers has developed a theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how #complexity and #evolution emerge in a new study published in @Nature .
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Is your city centralized? A new paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by Hyejin Youn, part of SFI’s Cities team, offers a way to quantify city centralization by looking at geometric shapes of travel routes.
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Our new essay series Transmission offers an array of #complexsystems insights on the #COVID19 pandemic: why systems collapse, viral evolution & ecology, networks & economic instability, outbreak modeling, decision-making's effect on disease spread, & more:
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Transmission: SFI insights into COVID-19

Transmitting insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the world of complexity science

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“A must do for anyone seriously into complex #systems research!” – Oskar Lindgren, #CSSS 2013 alum Applications are open for SFI's 2019 Complex Systems Summer School: #networks #innovation #evolution #modeling #scaling #science #ai #edu
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" #Intelligence as a #planetary scale process" A new paper by @AdamFrank4 , @DrFunkySpoon , & SFI External Prof @Sara_Imari explores the argument that the "minimal viable unit" for studying life may not be the organism or species, after all: #Technosphere
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#Interdisciplinarity , unconventional data collection, and other hallmarks of SFI's scientific culture are spurring a "golden age" in #SocialScience , according to a new @PNASNews perspective piece by @Caltech authors, naming nearly a dozen SFI researchers:
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SFI shines in 'golden age' of social science

Crossing disciplines, collecting new data in unconventional ways, and establishing a common language have long been hallmarks of scientific culture at the Santa Fe Institute. Now these same practices...

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"If you are trying to deal with a problem in a very specific system, you are probably doomed to making mistakes if you do not understand the underlying general principles that are at work." Geoffrey West Q&A @PhysicsToday
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Beyond #bestoftheyear : BoT chairman @mjmauboussin walks us through the most formative reads of his career, from Michael Porter's 'Competitive Strategy' (1980) to Geoffrey West's 'Scale' (2017)
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Announcing our new cohort of External Professors! @DaniSBassett @WendyCarlinEcon @seanmcarroll @andrederoos61 John Krakauer [ @blamlab ] @dr_naidu @mioconnor @oritpeleg @MartenScheffer @ThaliaWheatley Karen Willcox [ @OdenInstitute ] #complexity
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SFI welcomes 11 new external researchers

SFI welcomes 11 new External Faculty members.

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What does “meaning” mean? SFI PostDoc Kolchinsky & Prof Wolpert propose a new definition of #semantic #information : "the [info] that a physical #system has about its environment that is causally necessary for the system to maintain its own existence.”
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“In science you need a little bit of the rebel, and Doyne is definitely that. He challenges you to think about your assumptions.” - Co-Pierre Georg @Bloomberg on Farmer's pioneering career in #complexity #economics , which started with hacking roulette:
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Chaos Scientist Finds Hidden Financial Risks That Regulators Miss

Oxford Professor Doyne Farmer is working with central banks to improve stress testing.

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Big announcement today! Join us this Oct for a new three-week online course with live lectures and mentored projects feat. SFI's @DaniSBassett @profjennabednar @BettencourtLuis @SimonDeDeo @MelMitchell1 @MelanieEMoses @oritpeleg @ricardsole1 and more:
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Not only does the field of #AI today suffer from serious fallacies, but is arguably not even a #science as it is practiced. AI researcher & SFI External Prof @MelMitchell1 (founder of @ComplexExplorer ) on the likelihood of another impending #AIWinter at #TheEndofEverything (now)
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When it comes to computation, biology is vastly more efficient than technology. @royalsociety
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🚀 New paper by SFI President David Krakauer on the unification of #ComplexityScience and #MachineLearning out now in @FrontiersIn .
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A forest looks like a hotbed of randomness, but underneath that apparent messiness lurk regularities governed by the biological mechanisms that drive growth, death, & competition. New scaling research by SFI's @da_eddie_lee , @ChrisKempes , & Geoffrey West:
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New model describes the (scaling) laws of the jungle

Underneath the apparent messiness of forests lurk extraordinary regularities, governed by the biological mechanisms that drive universal forces of growth, death, and competition.

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Not one theory of everything, but an ecology of them. Nothing in the science or complex adaptive systems suggests that it is possible to reach a final understanding. Theories themselves are subject to the evolutionary pressures favoring diversity (and harmony) of social agents.
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@NSF @sfiscience For those interested in a summary of the @sfiscience @nsf meeting, "Convergent paths towards universality in complex systems," held in Dec 2019, here is an excellent, big picture essay by SFI president David Krakauer
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Re: “The Information Theory of Individuality" by Krakauer, Bertschinger, Olbrich, Ay, Flack:
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@HughHillhouse Thank you for reading our paper. We recently finished a major overhaul of the information theory of individuality. The updated paper will be available soon. . .
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Today would have been Murray-Gell-Mann’s 94th birthday. Gell-Mann was among the founding group that envisioned SFI as a radical institution that would prioritize synthesis, interdisciplinarity, collaboration, creativity, and studying complex adaptive systems.
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It sounds like the setup for a joke, but it's a question probing one of the deepest mysteries of biology: "What is the difference between a tornado, a rabbit, and a coral?"
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What is the nature of individuality? Is there a mathematical theory to define an "individual" at all levels of organization? Using Information Theory, this work by David Krakauer @C4COMPUTATION Nihat Ay et al. shows how 2doit& its implications @sfiscience
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"Widespread asystemic thinking may have cost America the entire month of Feb, and much of what we’d normally consider credible media were part of that failure." Great read by @zeynep on how #complexsystems blindness led to a disastrous #COVID19 response:
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Most agree life is a physical phenomenon unfolding in #time , and yet time is a mystery to modern #physics . What, then, is life — and how do we look for it in #space ? SFI's @Sara_Imari ( @Beyond_ASU ) joins us for an ambitious episode of #ComplexityPodcast :
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