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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park

COMPLEXITY

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The Inherent Tensions Between Individual Agency and Institutional Demand

i love how simon says you can use abasian inference approach to think about the different heuristics that people are applying to what constitutes a satisfying explanation. Some people want the big all-encompassing concealant model some people want the parsimonious model and either one of those approaches pursued to the exclusion of the other leads to a pathology. It's this issue of if you cut that vertically and then you look at again like we're saying the inherent tensions between individual agency and and uh institutional demand, which is why it's costly for cells to requisition nutrients from the body.

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