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COMPLEXITY — 119 episodes
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
Trailer for The Nature of Intelligence
Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
Physics of Life, Ep 5: How human history shapes scientific inquiry
Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Physics of Life, Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?
Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?
Trailer for Physics of Life
Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology
Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems
Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick
Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)
Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds
Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere
Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)
John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness
John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain
David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance
Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)
Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith
Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies
Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1
Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems
Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation
Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible Labor
W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics
W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry
Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers
Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White
Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2
Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1
Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde
Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life
Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies
Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs
J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
David Stork on AI Art History
Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McShea
Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm
Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference
Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic
Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning
Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories
Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory
Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems
David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & Identities
Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection
The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover)
Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee
Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)
The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales
Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)
Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)
The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer
Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)
Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)
Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)
On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response
COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1)
Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19
Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19
Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds
Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know
Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation
David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science
Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication
Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy
R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment
W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy
W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics
Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer
Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation
Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making
Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History
Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice
Jennifer Dunne on Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs
Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology
Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales
The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019
David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science