César Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar in economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He’s written some great books that we chat about today like Why Information Grows and How Humans Judge Machines. 

https://cesarhidalgo.com/
https://twitter.com/cesifoti

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
2:10 How to represent ideas visually
5:45 What makes something a great visualization?
7:30 What is the through-line of your work?
10:30 How the printing press changed who can be famous
13:20 What messages are optimized for the internet?
16:30 Using the internet for governance
22:10 What are new network-native institutions?
26:55 How Humans Judge Machines?
31:20 Judging institutions on intentions vs. outcomes
36:30 How do humans judge machines on Haidt's moral foundations?
41:20 How did you give the book away for free as a pdf?
46:00 Connecting the physics of information to the geography of knowledge 
51:30 Check out Center for Collective Learning

#90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems

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Marimba Freestyle

Music and lyrics by Zack Sulsky

David Fay, Voice
Zack Sulsky, Piano

Election Night

Loop piano 007

L I F E F O R M

Gardenia - Cover (Kat Dorrough)

Time After Time = Acoustic Cover (Kat Dorrough & Casey Colson)

Time After Time Acoustic - Cover (Kat Dorrough & Casey Colson)

"Nominees" by Zack Sulsky

To run education for our nation wouldn’t it be prudent
To find someone who’d ever been a teacher, or hell, a student?
And is it wise for oil guys with ties from here to Russia
To now decide how we reply to every global dust up?

I’m positive I’m just being negative
And negative’s no way to live
But honestly I can't see the comedy
In the oddity of all these nominees
Cause honestly I’m scared of what it means

The new attorney general is generally racist
He might strike down voting rights on some divisive basis
The protector of our environment should not reject the science
Consensus isn’t senseless and the risk outweighs the bias

I’m positive I’m just being negative
And negative’s no way to live
But honestly I can't see the comedy
In the oddity of all these nominees
Cause honestly I’m scared of what it means

The enemy of energy is suddenly oh so polite
And nuclear's no joke, you’d hope that he’d at least pronounce it right
I don’t mean to cast aspersions but what do surgeons know of urban needs
And a ranking banker regulating banks sounds like it’s ripe for greed

I’m positive I’m just being negative
And negative’s no way to live
But honestly I can't see the comedy
In the oddity of all these nominees
Cause honestly I’m scared of what it means

So don’t confirm them, congresspeople, please

Nominees

C O N T A C T

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* Mastered by Jared Atol

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