"To keep from getting tunnel vision, we need to manage our information flows."

Our 1st speaker for this year's #AppliedComplexity Network Symposium is columnist, author, and anthropologist @gilliantett, Chair of @FT Editorial Board.

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"Elite bankers were fragmented. Most bankers had no idea what they were up to, which is precisely the problem of technological complexity. If you want to hide something in broad daylight today, the easiest way is to wrap it up in acronyms, jargon, and mathematics."
- @gilliantett

"The kiss of death: algorithms and acronyms. For years I was desperately trying to get this stuff [e.g., securitized products] on the front page of the @FT, to make it sexy, and getting told that any story labeled [with acronyms] won't get on the front page."
- @gilliantett

"Until the Cambridge Analytica scandal exploded, there were very few journalists looking at #AdTech [but] there were these huge information asymmetries...and not only do regulators have a hard time tracking what's happening across borders, but so do journalists."
- @gilliantett

" #MachineLearning and #DeepLearning in #finance has gotten almost no attention whatsoever...it is, again, mired in #complexity and #algorithms and #acronyms, and being ignored. People need to take a wider view of information, actions, and consequences."
- @gilliantett

" #ImpactInvesting is almost a misnomer, because ALL investing has an impact — it's about whether it has a good impact or a bad impact, and whether you're thinking about it or not."
- @gilliantett

"In a world where the media is increasingly strapped, when everything is about getting attention, it's becoming harder to have the luxury of time and resources to roam, to dig into complexity and acronyms and jargon [making] it harder to have intelligent debate."
- @gilliantett

"Against the odds, #podcasts have emerged as the ultimate anti-tweet. It's the place where you have long-form, intelligent discussions about key issues."

- @gilliantett, indirectly validating #ComplexityPodcast's role in SFI's multimedia outreach ecosystem

"The #AI is now used is not all that different from all of the other divining tools used in societies around the world, except that it gives you a prediction measured to the decimal point."
- @gilliantett

"We live in the best of times...but we got here by eating up the Earth in one or two generations. And that's a problem"

Next up today for the #AppliedComplexity Symposium: SFI External Professor Marten Scheffer of @WageningenUR on "Lost Attraction: How Civilizations Transform."

"The Future of the Human #Climate Niche"

Read Marten's @PNASNews paper with SFI External Professor Tim Kohler (which this spring was one of the Top 5 science papers worldwide & the only one NOT on #COVID19) linked in the show notes at #ComplexityPodcast:
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/33 

"The story goes that #civilizations age, and at some point they become fragile, and then everything falls apart. There's a loss of #resilience. But does the evidence support that?"

- SFI External Prof Marten Scheffer's research looks for "Dynamic Indicators of Resilience"

An increase in temporal autocorrelations doesn't just indicate the growing #frailty of aging #civilizations, but of instabilities in individual mood, predicting #depression.

"It's remarkable that you have this #universality."

- SFI External Prof Marten Scheffer on #resilience