Seth Frey

What are your main interests? Feel free to include a "pie in the sky" big idea! Narrowly (dissertation-wise), I'm pushing the experimental side of complex dynamics in game theory. Researchers at SFi suspect that complexity is ubiquitous is complex systems. Economists argue that what-you-think-I-think-you-think can damp complexity in the real world. My work shows that even this advanced sophisticated reasoning is complicit in complex dynamics.

Broadly, I want to be able to look at a problem and tell you the organization that will solve it best, decentralized or centralized, distributed or not, coherent or incoherent.

What sort of expertise can you bring to the group? I've spent most of the past decade killing my heroes---thinking critically about exciting ideas in complex systems. I apply complex systems concepts to social systems using experiments in human collective behavior. My background is in cognitive science.

What do you hope to get out of the CSSS? I'd like to work with some of the people who have developed the models driving my dissertaiton.

Do you have any possible projects in mind for the CSSS? I hope to develop models of game play that include iterated reasoning.