Scott Page

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Interview with Phillip Ball on his book of how life works

Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.

By ignoring the work,student do not find themselves. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.

`` I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” Joseph Conrad

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@umich.edu

Scott Page on Complex Systems Thinking and Diversity Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · 04/21/2025 · 56m

Wide ranging discussion on all things complex and unequal with Steven Durlauf podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Princeton Classics

Pleased to announce that The Difference has been reissued as a Princeton Classic!! press.princeton.edu/collections/...

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

Thought provoking essay on AI as a cultural and social technology, opposed to as an augmenter or agent.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

I organized a department salon on the double descent phenomenon - as you add more parameters you can overcome bias -variance tradeoff. Two key slides and cite attached.

Great piece on probability,expected value, loss aversion, decision making and volatility by Michael Mauboussin

In countries with fewer cross gender online “friends” women’s labor participation rates are lower

Moderna Accelerating the development of life-saving treatments.

Moderna created 750 GPTs in house openai.com/index/moderna/ The brilliant Brice Challamel explains how in this exhilarating podcast www.beyondtheprompt.ai AI is assistant, expert, coach, and co-creator. Everyone is now a 5 person team! Using AI is not nearly as risky as not using AI!

Creativity Test from my Collective Intelligence Course. Make a list of DOG names s.t. each sequential pair is a "funny" combination

Example:

1. Pecan

2. Butter

3. Peanut

4. Mister

5. Rogers

6. Jolly

7. Rancher

Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, ..

Teaching Collective Intelligence. A thread is how institutions - markets, democracies, organizations, communities and algorithms - enable better coordination. Website tracking effect of NYCs new congestion pricing policy (a move from self-organization to market)
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

I'm happy to be joining Bluesky. I'll be posting on collective intelligence, diversity, mechanism design, models, and matters arising