https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Simon_DeDeo 2026-04-26T09:57:07Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=73477&oldid=prev 2018-06-21T06:28:48Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:28, 21 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] and [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html norms on Wikipedia (2001–)], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490 emergent civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finite state machines for </ins>cooperation and conflict] and [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html norms on Wikipedia (2001–)], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490 emergent civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10578-9_21 sparse coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10578-9_21 sparse coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71830&oldid=prev 2018-06-02T14:56:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:56, 2 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators, and cultural analysis is a young field with an enormous amount to play with. I've collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years; many of them are now faculty, and some <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of them now </del>have tenure!</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators, and cultural analysis is a young field with an enormous amount to play with. I've collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years; many of them are now faculty, and some have tenure!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon], including popular pieces on [http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction tribalism] and [http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox the blockchain].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon], including popular pieces on [http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction tribalism] and [http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox the blockchain].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71829&oldid=prev 2018-06-02T14:53:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:53, 2 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, start businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects of<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, say, </del>participatory democracy or the scientific method.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, start businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects of participatory democracy or the scientific method.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71803&oldid=prev 2018-05-30T21:01:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:01, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, start businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that the invention </del>of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, has downstream</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, start businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71802&oldid=prev 2018-05-30T21:00:51Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:00, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We&#039;ve worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] and [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html norms on Wikipedia (2001–)], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490 emergent civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we&#039;ve completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We&#039;ve worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] and [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html norms on Wikipedia (2001–)], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490 emergent civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we&#039;ve completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spare </del>coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10578-9_21 sparse </ins>coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71801&oldid=prev 2018-05-30T20:59:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:59, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and norm </del>on Wikipedia (2001–)], [ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">?via%3Dihubemergent </del>civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin (1836–1859)], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>[http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">norms </ins>on Wikipedia (2001–)], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emergent </ins>civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [ spare coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [ spare coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71800&oldid=prev 2018-05-30T20:59:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:59, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">build </del>businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects that the invention of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method, has downstream.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">start </ins>businesses, or [https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 discover natural and moral truths]? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects that the invention of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method, has downstream.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html and norm on Wikipedia (2001–)], [<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emergent </del>civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the [http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 French Revolution (1789–1791)], [http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(1836–1859)</ins>], the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html cooperation and conflict] [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html and norm on Wikipedia (2001–)], [ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873316302490?via%3Dihubemergent </ins>civil society in China (1980–)], empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [ spare coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we&#039;re primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, [http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 lossy compression], rate distortion theory, [ spare coding and compressed sensing], and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence].</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, [http://www.experimentalhumanities.com Experimental Humanities Lab]), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators. I've collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Many </del>of them are now faculty<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>some of them now have tenure!</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and cultural analysis is a young field with an enormous amount to play with</ins>. I've collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; many </ins>of them are now faculty<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and </ins>some of them now have tenure!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon], including popular pieces on [http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction tribalism] and [http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox the blockchain].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon], including popular pieces on [http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction tribalism] and [http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox the blockchain].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:56, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I&#039;m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I run the Laboratory for Social Minds, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, build businesses, or discover natural <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </del>moral truths? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects that the invention of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method, has downstream.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We study cultural flourishing. How do people organize themselves to do great things: build nations, create art, build businesses, or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03419 </ins>discover natural <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>moral truths<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>? We know a lot about the microevolution of culture, but much less about the big macroevoutionary phenomena that alter the very basis of human life. Simple stories about "memes" are totally inadequate to capture the complex, transformational effects that the invention of, say, participatory democracy or the scientific method, has downstream.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the French Revolution (1789–1791), court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913), the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), cooperation and conflict on Wikipedia (2001–), empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our data science work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.pnas.org/content/115/18/4607 </ins>French Revolution (1789–1791)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419 </ins>court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">], the [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716302840 information foraging habits of Charles Darwin]</ins>, the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31/html </ins>cooperation and conflict<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] [http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/2/14/html and norm </ins>on Wikipedia (2001–)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">], [emergent civil society in China (1980–)]</ins>, empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, lossy compression, rate distortion theory, and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170166 </ins>lossy compression<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>, rate distortion theory<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, [ spare coding and compressed sensing]</ins>, and the information bottleneck. Also, one of our members is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Another is interested in applying theories from the thermodynamics of computation to economics. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03113 Sometimes we get punchy]. We really, really [https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/993881889143447552 love Kullback-Leibler divergence]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, Experimental <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Narratives </del>Lab), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.experimentalhumanities.com </ins>Experimental <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Humanities </ins>Lab<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We&#039;re always looking for new collaborators. I&#039;ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. Many of them are now faculty; some of them now have tenure!</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We&#039;re always looking for new collaborators. I&#039;ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. Many of them are now faculty; some of them now have tenure!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon] I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I'm happy to talk about the transition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, including popular pieces on [http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction tribalism] and [http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox the blockchain].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I'm happy to talk about the transition.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:45, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More formally, we ask questions about cultural evolution and the emergence of complex societies and practices through large-scale, computational analysis of archives. At the same time, we build models of cognition, often with a basis in information theory or machine learning, and we then test our theories of culture through laboratory experiments.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">empirical </del>work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the French Revolution (1789–1791), court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913), the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), cooperation and conflict on Wikipedia (2001–), empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">data science </ins>work spans the last few centuries of the human species. We've worked on speeches from the French Revolution (1789–1791), court trials from the British Common Law system (1780-1913), the emergence of scientific innovation in the Royal Society (1665–1996), cooperation and conflict on Wikipedia (2001–), empathy and relating on Mumsnet (2001–), online radicalization and the incels movement in Reddit (2017–), the Socratic dialogues (-399–-387), Poetry Magazine (1913–2001), the Serbian Parliament (1996–), and the US Congressional Record (1996–). And probably a few others that we've completely forgotten about (sorry!)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, lossy compression, rate distortion theory, and the information bottleneck. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One </del>of our <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">visitors </del>is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theoretical work began with analogies from statistical mechanics, but we're primarily interested now in the phenomena of unsupervised clustering, lossy compression, rate distortion theory, and the information bottleneck. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Also, one </ins>of our <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">members </ins>is writing code to evolve Python programs but he promises not to trigger the AI singularity.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and we</del>'ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some </del>of them now have tenure!</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Our psychological work tries to connect our data science findings to lived human experience. We are now running parallel tests on our information-theoretic tools to see the extent to which they capture human judgement. With Liz Hobson (SFI) and Dan Mønster (Aarhus), we are using online games to study loop closure, downwards causation, and the use of global and local information in decision-making. And with Fritz Breithaupt (IU, Experimental Narratives Lab), we are starting our first tests using his Serial Narratives system on MTurk.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We're always looking for new collaborators<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. I</ins>'ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many of them are now faculty; some </ins>of them now have tenure!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon] I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon] I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I&#039;m happy to talk about the transition.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sdedeo https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Simon_DeDeo&diff=71797&oldid=prev 2018-05-30T20:21:54Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:21, 30 May 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We&#039;re always looking for new collaborators, and we&#039;ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. Some of them now have tenure!</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We&#039;re always looking for new collaborators, and we&#039;ve collaborated with a number of CSSS students over the years. Some of them now have tenure!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can find links to research and papers from our lab here -- [http://santafe.edu/~simon http://santafe.edu/~simon] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I built my transdisciplinary career as an Omidyar Fellow at SFI; my early career, as a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a Kavli Fellow at the University of Chicago, was as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I'm happy to talk about the transition.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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