Complexity

The Problems of Prediction, Part 2

Our overconfidence in our predictive abilities can be traced to the simple fact that the universe is infinitely complex.

By David A. J. Reynolds | February 21, 2018 | Cognition, Economics, Government, Philosophy, Prediction, Society | Brexit, Britain, Certainty, Comprehension, Cosmology, Data, Economics, Elections, Error, Forecasting, Foresight, Freakonomics, Genetic Engineering, Hanna Arendt, Hubris, Ignorance, Infinity, Information, Knowledge, Limitations, Manipulations, Models, Neuroscience, Over-confidence, Philip Tetlock, Polling, Prediction, Reality, Statistics, Stephen Dubner, The Brain, The Universe, Truth, UK, Understanding, Unknowns, Unpredictability, US

Reverse clock

On “Going Back”

“We can’t go back” is a favorite rejoinder to technoskeptics. We just don’t think it’s a compelling argument for much of anything.

By Mo Lotman | May 10, 2017 | Automation, Economics, Philosophy, Privacy, Society, Well-Being | Brexit, El Sisi, Income Inequality, Kevin Kelly, Lionel Shriver, Monopoly, Permaculture, Progress, Slavery, Smoking, Stasi, Stephen Hawking, Techno-utopians, Technological Determinism, Wisdom, WWII

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