rkmt The essence of academia, even briefly! I think academia is about information compressibility, where students and newcomers can catch up to the cutting edge after only a few months of learning what their predecessors spent 10 years discovering.”

ultimatile: Why did complex systems fall into disuse? (Personal Thoughts)|Koba https://zenn.dev/crmind/articles/fddccd0c3aa4fd…

I had my stomach churning reading the “History of Complex Systems” presented here.

rkmt This is also a sharp point, as this is truly an “eco-historical view of knowledge”. It is important to control the osmotic pressure of new generations of knowledge flowing into any field: “I think the most important thing for a field to become vibrant is for young students and researchers to enter and work on new ideas. To this end, it is essential for the field to establish a situation in which students can catch up with the state-of-the-art (relatively easily) after only six months or a year of study.”

rkmt Reference “An Ecological History of Technology” rkmt.medium.com Ecological History of Technology Technium: Where is Technology Heading?

rkmt Will chatGPT change the “knowledge ecosystem” or “knowledge osmosis”… (areas that seem more interesting or deeply learned with chatGPT…)

  • Is it important that the people who move to a new location be able to settle in within a year (i.e., that the cost of moving is low) in order for Attention mobile voting to be successful?

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