We often describe AI as software. Increasingly, it looks like infrastructure: data centers, power grids, cooling systems, supply chains. If intelligence scales through computation, who bears the cost of scaling computation? #ComplexityThoughts Read it 👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

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Don’t miss #ComplexityThoughts: Issue #83 This week you will find latest research on AI, biology and population dynamics. open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

A computer worm, an online rumor and a zombie apocalypse are not the same thing. Despite that, they can share a similar mathematical skeleton: contact changes state and state changes propagate. Last essay for #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com/p/the-power-...

As usual, I’ve been mapping recent results in complexity science across disciplines, from evolution to neuroscience, from biological systems to foundations. Curious? Issue #82 of #ComplexityThoughts is out: from complexity to insight. Link in the first comment 👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

The image of Earth as a pale blue dot is often used to emphasize how small we are. We are not just small: we are moving, collectively, within a vast dynamical system whose boundaries are defined by flow. We are explorers. Read it on #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com/p/living-in-...

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The Issue #81 of #ComplexityThoughts is out: this week #Ecosystems, #Evolution, #HumanBehavior & #CognitiveScience manlius.substack.com/p/complexity... And, as usual, also on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

A reproducibility failure in microbiome research and a wave of biomedical AI studies built on unverifiable data point to the same issue: scientific results can circulate and gain authority without remaining testable. In #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com/p/when-data-...

New 3D map of the Universe released by DESI Each dot is a galaxy. Each galaxy host hundreds of millions/billions stars. Each star can host (exo)planets. Coverage: www.science.org/content/arti... A #ComplexityThoughts w/ estimates to make sense of scales: manlius.substack.com/p/a-whole-lo...

Astronomers complete largest 3...

The problem is not simply that technology is changing fast, but that a species shaped by slow biological evolution now lives inside a system whose rate of change is increasingly generated from within. New #ComplexityThoughts 🧪🧬🤖🌍 is out: manlius.substack.com/p/engineered...

Engineered by slow time, livin...