Thanks for this wonderful article! I absolutely agree that it would be highly beneficial to have a community that is at the intersection of EA and Complexity. I recently participated in an event, where I actually found several other EAs interested in Complexity but unfortunately I couldn’t spend enough time to network with them further (I got involved in another project there).
I have also been thinking about how we may use the tools of Complexity to make EA better although I haven’t been able to concretely land on anything. Here are some vague thoughts I have. I am not entirely sure if any of these thoughts are worth pursuing so tug at these threads at your own peril!:
I wonder if there is a possibility of creating an Agent-Based Model to understand Global Catastrophic Risks although I am not entirely sure how to go about doing this. This talk by Luisa Rodriguez here might be a good place to start. She is not building an ABM (atleast going by what she said in that talk) but the way she talks about it made me feel like an ABM could help.
Complexity has some roots in Philosophy (A quick Google search took me here). I wonder how the philosophy of EA and that of Complexity would work together.
I wonder if we can deal with flow-through effects better if we had a Complex Systems view. Is this a network shaped problem?
But these are all mostly at a ‘wondering-if’ stage and one would definitely need help from cleverer people to actually start some concrete work. So having a community around EA & Complexity would be highly beneficial.
Doesn’t complexity have its “roots” in reality? as one aspect of phenomenal world? of actuality and factual experience? rather than growing up out of a set of conceptualized abstractions?
I refer, of course, to Varella, Matura et al … “self-organization” and such. Autopoesis, nae? And, of course, Mandelbrot … the fractal nature of reality …
Thanks for this wonderful article! I absolutely agree that it would be highly beneficial to have a community that is at the intersection of EA and Complexity. I recently participated in an event, where I actually found several other EAs interested in Complexity but unfortunately I couldn’t spend enough time to network with them further (I got involved in another project there).
I have also been thinking about how we may use the tools of Complexity to make EA better although I haven’t been able to concretely land on anything. Here are some vague thoughts I have. I am not entirely sure if any of these thoughts are worth pursuing so tug at these threads at your own peril!:
I wonder if there is a possibility of creating an Agent-Based Model to understand Global Catastrophic Risks although I am not entirely sure how to go about doing this. This talk by Luisa Rodriguez here might be a good place to start. She is not building an ABM (atleast going by what she said in that talk) but the way she talks about it made me feel like an ABM could help.
Complexity has some roots in Philosophy (A quick Google search took me here). I wonder how the philosophy of EA and that of Complexity would work together.
I wonder if we can deal with flow-through effects better if we had a Complex Systems view. Is this a network shaped problem?
But these are all mostly at a ‘wondering-if’ stage and one would definitely need help from cleverer people to actually start some concrete work. So having a community around EA & Complexity would be highly beneficial.
Doesn’t complexity have its “roots” in reality? as one aspect of phenomenal world? of actuality and factual experience? rather than growing up out of a set of conceptualized abstractions?
I refer, of course, to Varella, Matura et al … “self-organization” and such. Autopoesis, nae?
And, of course, Mandelbrot … the fractal nature of reality …
#Lateral—Came across this in my bookmarks: https://ccc.ciencias.uchile.cl/ccc/index.php
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