Merle -
Have you also worked with Ed McKerrow?
- Steve
Ron,
Norm and I teamed up when we were both in T Division (I was at CNLS) at the Lab
working on an ABM policy simulator. He's back in Santa Fe.
Merle
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Ron Newman wrote:
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
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Ron-
Here's the link to the Christakis/Fowler paper on happiness contagion I
mentioned earlier...and a TEDx talk.
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
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