#90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems

César Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar in economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He’s written some great books that we chat about today like Why Information Grows and How Humans Judge Machines. https://cesarhidalgo.com/ https://twitter.com/cesifoti https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark Chapters: 00:00 Intro 2:10 How to represent ideas visually 5:45 What makes something a great visualization? 7:30 What is the through-line of your work? 10:30 How the printing press changed who can be famous 13:20 What messages are optimized for the internet? 16:30 Using the internet for governance 22:10 What are new network-native institutions? 26:55 How Humans Judge Machines? 31:20 Judging institutions on intentions vs. outcomes 36:30 How do humans judge machines on Haidt's moral foundations? 41:20 How did you give the book away for free as a pdf? 46:00 Connecting the physics of information to the geography of knowledge 51:30 Check out Center for Collective Learning