Steve, Do you have a link to your 2001 paper on Collective Intelligence? Can't google it.
By the way, are you acquainted with Norman Johnson, late of LANL? Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron- > > Here's the link to the > Christakis/Fowler<http://worldhappinessmeter.com/links.php>paper on happiness > contagion I mentioned earlier...and > a TEDx talk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAmkIp8aI4>. > > Thanks... I was being a little flip when I suggested all this, but I'm > glad to see that there *is* work tied in already underway. > > Are they building off of Epstein's work? He's not mentioned in the > citations. > > I doubt it. I think we are talking somewhat separated paradigms. I > suspect there *could* be a tie in with some work, but I can tell already > that Doug is not going to be our Emissary over beer and ribs... <grin>. > > I have worked on two projects that tie in to Fowler's talk and his > referencing of the Digital Village. > > One was an early days(public) internet project ( entitled "Digital > Village", no kidding) to try to understand how the growing participation in > the internet of the first and third world population might change the > nature of these populations. I don't remember any amazing results, I seem > to remember that the project was overcome by events such that we were > running on pre-internet time trying to keep up with the actual progress of > the internet. A related project I think was to try to help the USPS > anticipate what the internet was going to mean to them... and what they > could do to remain relevant as the digital age overwhelmed the > atom-age. > > The other was a paper on "Collective Intelligence" Circa 2001 which > involved some simple simulations to demonstrate that a connected group > could have more problem-solving ability than any individual (or small > subset?). > > A lot of my research and contribution overlaps a lot of what Fowler is > saying in his TED talk... in particular our evolutionary roots as nomadic > tribal groups of order 100... and the potential implications for our > (future) social networks when they are no longer geographically, familial, > or job constrained. > > I'm mildly disturbed by his verbage in the talk which seems to conflate > correlation with causation (are obese friends on facebook actually > influencing the others to become (more) obese or are they choosing > eachother because they are obese, or do obese people share common interests > (love food and sedentary pursuits while eschewing physical activities?). I > realize it is a popular talk jammed into a short period of time... I'll get > more out of the paper I'm sure. > > I'm also interested in whether "Happiness" is considered a scalar, a > vector or even a tensor? And if there are iterated network models > (roughly ABMs or Network Automata) trying to simulate this? > > So much for trying to be flip. Now I'm hooked (a little). > > Happily hooked? > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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