Sam Arbesman — Science, Complexity and Humanistic Computation (EP.277)

Hi, I'm Jim O'Shaughnessy and welcome to Infinite Loops. Sometimes we get caught up in what feel like infinite loops when trying to figure things out. Markets go up and down, research is presented and then refuted, and we find ourselves right back where we started. The goal of this podcast is to learn how we can reset our thinking. on issues that hopefully leaves us with a better understanding as to why we think the way we think and how we might be able to change that to avoid going in infinite loops of thought.

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Well hello everyone it's Jim O'Shaughnessy with yet another Infinite Loops. I was really looking forward to today's guest because it seems like we are traveling in very similar circles and yet Sam Arbsman and I have not met one another. Sam, I'm a little daunted, to be honest, to be even talking to you because I don't think I'm smart enough to even come up with good questions. Sam is a complexity scientist and writer obsessed with seemingly unrelated ideas covering science and technology, actually not covering, connecting them.

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