Re: HW thanks

watched that you tube with horror you we=e great.

thanks, jeffrey.

a summation of the year that appeared in the Atlantic a couple of mont=s ago is here: http://www.thea=lantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-peril-of-writing-a-provo=ative-email-at-yale/484418/https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.theatlantic.com_politics_archive_2016_05_the-2Dperil-2Dof-2=writing-2Da-2Dprovocative-2Demail-2Dat-2Dyale_484418_&d=CwMFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=sugCQA1GQcc_iJPTn7lczmIloO1Fu1wJYNkrhje9j=g&m=EKUtcbzDEP-hP4Il4zWcJBuyMCH68yDX9K7vmEckaKo&s=9hPPimUdG6VA=ceipaewycZBCsrENPyd9RA_u40-qhw&e= it was a demanding year, and we did our best.

an essay i wrote for the New York Times, which attempts to address one part=of the difficult issues this past year, and that might possibly be of inte=est to you, is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/teaching-inclusion-in-a-divided-world.html?_r=0 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/__rl?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2016_06_23_education_teaching-2Dinclusion-=Din-2Da-2Ddivided-2Dworld.html-3F-5Fr-3D0&d=CwMFaQ&c=- dg2m7zWu=DZ0MUcV7Sdwq&r=sugCQA1GQcc_iJPTn7lczmIloO1Fu1wJYNkrhje9jjg&m=E=UtcbzDEP-hP4Il4zWcJBuyMCH68yDX9K7vmEckaKo&s=ZkYlbJeDV9mueQHy4E_R0Wv1=dPF-ZZLAQYPT1aTYOA&e=>.

and, in case you have not seen it, and are interested, here is my wife =80 s original email:
https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika=christakis-dressing-yourselves-email-to-silliman-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v=/url?u=https-3A__www.thefire.org_email-2Dfrom-2Derika-2Dchristakis-2Ddre=sing-2Dyourselves-2Demail-2Dto-2Dsilliman-2Dcollege-2Dyale-2Dstudents-2Don=2Dhalloween-2Dcostumes_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&==sugCQA1GQcc_iJPTn7lczmIloO1Fu1wJYNkrhje9jjg&m=EKUtcbzDEP-hP4Il4zW=JBuyMCH68yDX9K7vmEckaKo&s=M4DenbZ3V3BiaJEwu1Sy3K8QRA51alHmGdKHZDN2h_=&e=.

— nicholas

thanks, what are you currently working o=? have you seen any discovery that is trasnformational.=C2 it seems little new in many =thers. BTW, sol goldman wa= one of my first clients

in your field.?

dear jeff:

we are doing a number of new things.

one of my favorite projects, currently under review so i cannot =hare all details, involves an initiative in what we call 'dumb Al.=E2 we are going in a different direction than others who are i=creasing the sophistication of Al technologies. we are decreasing it. we are developing simple sorts of Al, an= we are creating bots that we drop into groups of humans (creating =98heterogeneous systems' of bots interspersed among real humans) s= as to facilitate the performance of those groups. through a bit of thoughtful programming and careful inter-position of the bots, we=can enhance group performance in a number of valuable and useful ways, we =hink. we think there are many applications and could be transformati=nal, as you put it, though, judging from the sorts of things you probably hear about, perhaps not.

and we have two other sustained, ongoing efforts:

breadboard.ya=e.edu http://breadboard.yale.edu (software with which we create artificial societies of rea= people, which allows us to do experiments, e.g., this recent paper in Nat=re: http://humannaturelab.net/paper/inequality-and-visibility-of-weal=h-in-experimental-social-networks/ http://humannaturelab.net/paper/inequality-and-visibility-of-wea=th-in-experimental-social-networks/ )

and

http://humannaturelab.net/honduras-social-networks/ http://humannaturelab.net/honduras-social-networks/ (a=large field experiment in Honduras in which we are trying to create artifi=ial tipping points to foster large-scale behavior change)

finally, we have some other cool work involving alternative currencies=and the role of network cycles in economic systems (basically, without cyc=es, the systems perform terribly).

best,

nicholas

alternative currencies? concepts=C2 of trust. exchange store of value, risk, tax. ?