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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Motivation for Borrowing Expertise From Complex Systems Studies

A lot of the motivation here is very policy driven so you know even though it's complex systems and fun academic intellectual ideas at the end of the day how does this tell us what better policies to implement in particular. We were motivated by the fact that some of these people are from regimes which can be bad actors and we might want to sanction them someday and how do we do that effectively well there's this long tradition of sanctioning the transfer of information and people who can transfer it and then extended to things like bioweapons and so forth. The Swiss for example they are actually prosecuting some Swiss wealth managers who were serving Russian oligarchs so they're implementing this theory right now.

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