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Hive Mindstein2 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 month ago: David Basanta’s blog has an interesting thread (quite a few of them actually).  Here’s … more →

Tags: computation, crowdsourcing, Epistemology, Limits of Knowledge, models, Singularity, Socio-technical systems

Dynamic Architecture

rafefurst wrote 1 month ago: Here’s the architect’s website, and here’s a video: Hat tip: Michael Johnson … more →

Tags: Architecture, technology

National Popular Vote2 comments

rafefurst wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday I blogged about personal vote verification.  At the group level, I recommend supporting t … more →

Tags: Government, Interventions, Politics, Voting

Crowdsourcing Election Verification3 comments

rafefurst wrote 2 months ago: I take it as accepted fact at this point that the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election would have gone to … more →

Tags: crowdsourcing, Government, Politics, Voting

Stray Thought About the Singularity1 comment

kevindick wrote 2 months ago: Rafe’s post on complex systems defending themselves randomly collided in my mind with this pos … more →

Tags: Cooperation, Government, Singularity, Society, Socio-technical systems

Global Warming10 comments

rafefurst wrote 3 months ago: A few months ago a friend of mine engaged me in a discussion about the controversy surrounding globa … more →

Tags: Limits of Knowledge, Markets, models, Society

Charity + Prediction Markets

rafefurst wrote 4 months ago: A new prediction market site with a twist: your profits in the market get donated to the charity of … more →

Tags: Markets, Philanthropy

Open Letter to Gotham Prize1 comment

rafefurst wrote 4 months ago: The Gotham Prize is a laudable new effort to provide incentive for new approaches to cancer.  In re … more →

Tags: Limits of Knowledge

Notes from TED10 comments

rafefurst wrote 4 months ago: Here are some notes that I took at TED 2008.  I have a bunch more on each of the speakers individua … more →

Tags: agency, computation, Cooperation, Culture, Education, emergence, Epistemology, Government, Levels

TED Talks: Iqbal Quadir

rafefurst wrote 4 months ago: Mobile phones fight poverty Click here for Discussion Forum … more →

Tags: poverty, Society, TeD

Complex Links: TED

rafefurst wrote 4 months ago: I attended the TED Conference this year for the first time.  It was a transformative experience, on … more →

Tags: Cooperation, crowdsourcing, emergence, Limits of Knowledge, Society, TeD

X Prize Annuity Funds11 comments

rafefurst wrote 5 months ago: In the March 9, 2008 Sunday Magazine section of the NY Times, Freakonomics authors, Stephen Dubner … more →

Tags: Cancer, crowdsourcing, Philanthropy

Management 2.02 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: There is a movement afoot in the business world that parallels the growing maturity of the internet … more →

Tags: Management, Networks, Web 2.0, Wiki

Dangerous Media5 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: With the massacre at Virginia Tech weighing on everyone’s mind, we must look at the causal rol … more →

Tags: Causality, Government

The New Philanthropy5 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: What I mean by “the New Philanthropy” is the cultural change afoot that is leading more … more →

Tags: Culture, Philanthropy

The Eight Most Powerful People on the Planet2 comments

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: …but weak, indecisive and utterly incapable of true world leadership read the article | digg t … more →

Tags: Culture, Philanthropy

Eliminating Political Parties

rafefurst wrote 1 year ago: This is a repost from my MySpace blog, but it really belongs here. Why Political Parties Exist, Why … more →

Tags: emergence, Government, Voting


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