FAREWELL
29/06/23 21:10
Much love, Cormac.
1933-2023.
Looking south from Muley Point at your stomping grounds, where "all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships."
@Twitter thread on Cormac, Blood Meridian's beautiful prose, a little bit of fashion, SFI and complexity science.
https://twitter.com/C4COMPUTATION/status/1669540133698416640?s=20
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM POSTSCRIPT
29/06/23 19:36
Among the topics we discussed at SFI's Collective Intelligence Symposium + Short Course: Foundations + Radical Ideas—reformulating collective intelligence as micro-meso-macro problem, information-theoretic approaches for capturing the compositional, multidimensional nature of intelligence, nature of understanding, reformulating AI as collective intelligence, the role of compression + coarse-graining in intelligence, the phases of collective intelligence, relationship to emergence + pattern formation, + dynamics under uncertainty.
The quality of the posters in the symposium's poster session was fantastic. Rather hard to choose the top three! The winners are below.
Group photo, courtesy of Eddie Lee.
FIRST PRIZE ($1000)
Emergent Behaviors of Janus Swarming Oscillators by Steven Ceron
SECOND PRIZE ($750)
Surveying Early Warning Signals of Transitions Using a Large-scale Collaborative Experiment by Guillaume Falmagne, Anna B. Stephenson, and Simon Levin
THIRD PRIZE (Three-way tie, $500 each)
Agent Based Feedback Models of a “Sense of Should” by Robert Passas, Brennan Klein, Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault
Following the Information Footprint of Firms by Eddie Lee (not shared due to proprietary information)
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Food Exchange Networks in Honeybees by Golnar Gharooni Fard, Morgan Byers, Varad Deshmukh, Chad Topaz, Elizabeth Bradley, and Orit Peleg
SFI COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM + SHORT COURSE: FOUNDATIONS + RADICAL IDEAS
09/06/23 21:04
June 19-22. This event is over max capacity for in person attendance but @sfiscience has available a limited number of virtual seats.
Register for online participation* via the "Apply" tab:
https://santafe.edu/info/collective-intelligence-2023/about
Speakers + Agenda (subject to change) are below.
Day 1 will focus on how a familiarity with (and modification of) first principles approaches in the natural and physical sciences might help us do a better job of understanding how collective intelligence emerges + what makes a good measure of it.
Day 2 will more specifically focus on the nature of intelligence in brains, AI, human groups and other kinds of collectives.
Day 3 in the morning will focus on the dynamics of CI under uncertainty in changing environments.
In the afternoon, we will focus on the role of collectives in the origins of radical ideas.
This will include a special discussion with filmmaker, artist and activist, Godfrey Reggio, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of his ground-breaking film, Koyaanisqatsi. Clips from the film will accompany discussion.
https://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/aboutus/godfrey.php
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/collections/the-reggio-ire-collection
