The Importance of Context in a Complex Adaptive System

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Do you think of reductionism as underestimating the importance of context in this situation? There are a bunch of different levels of emergent behavior phenomena that actually exist, whether it's in biological sciences or social sciences. And the only way that we can get a grasp on some of these things is perhaps to step away from reductionism to something slightly closer to emergent phenomena.

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How are curiosity and innovation connected? What's the most important problem in your field? And are you working on it? Why or why not? Is curiosity the best heuristic — either for an individual or for society at large — for finding valuable problems to work on? What mental models do people tend to use by default? How much is an academic degree worth these days? What are some alternatives to degrees that could count as valid credentials, i.e., as unfakeable (or very-hard-to-fake) signals of someone's level of skill in an area? Can people learn to fake any kind of signal, or are there some that are inherently unfakeable?

Rohit Krishnan is an essayist at Strange Loop Canon, where he writes about business, tech, and economics. He's been an entrepreneur and an investor and is very excited to see when crazy ideas meet the real world. Follow him on Twitter at @krishnanrohit.

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