This post successfully describes my thoughts ... and in a criticism of my favorite "economist" von Hayek to boot!
http://evonomics.com/cognitive-economics-intelligence-mulgan/ > It’s an appealing view. But self-organization is not an altogether-coherent > concept and has often turned out to be misleading as a guide to collective > intelligence. It obscures the work involved in organization and in particular > the hard work involved in high-dimensional choices. If you look in detail at > any real example—from the family camping trip to the operation of the > Internet, open-source software to everyday markets, these are only > self-organizing if you look from far away. Look more closely and different > patterns emerge. You quickly find some key shapers—like the designers of > underlying protocols, or the people setting the rules for trading. There are > certainly some patterns of emergence. Many ideas may be tried and tested > before only a few successful ones survive and spread. To put it in the terms > of network science, the most useful links survive and are reinforced; the > less useful ones wither. The community decides collectively which ones are > useful. Yet on closer inspection, there turn out to be concentrations of > power and influence even in the most decentralized communities, and when > there’s a crisis, networks tend to create temporary hierarchies—or at least > the successful ones do—to speed up decision making. As I will show, almost > all lasting examples of social coordination combine some elements of > hierarchy, solidarity, and individual. On January 13, 2018 8:46:24 AM PST, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I am hoping that the responses of >others will display exactly the diversity you describe. -- glen ============================================================ 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
