Frontiers | Topological Isomorphisms of Human Brain and Financial Market Networks | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Posted: September 26, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Spontaneous Order, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

http://www.frontiersin.org/systems_neuroscience/10.3389/fnsys.2011.00075/abstract

An Illiberal Liberal

Posted: August 17, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Politics, Spontaneous Order | Leave a comment »

http://inertiawins.com/2011/08/17/an-illiberal-liberal/

Marginal Revolution: Spontaneous order on the road

Posted: August 11, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Private Roads, Spontaneous Order, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/08/spontaneous-order-on-the-road.html

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Evolution of Cooperation and Altruism Among Robots

Posted: March 16, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Anarchy, Endogenous Rules, Evolution, Morals, Spontaneous Order | Leave a comment »

“Here, we describe selected studies of experimental evolution with robots to illustrate how the process of natural selection can lead to the evolution of complex traits such as adaptive behaviours. Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism.”

“In all cases, robots initially exhibited completely uncoordinated behaviour because their genomes had random values. However, a few hundreds of generations of random mutations and selective reproduction were sufficient to promote the evolution of efficient behaviours in a wide range of environmental conditions. The ability of robots to orientate, escape predators, and even cooperate is particularly remarkable given that they had deliberately simple genotypes directly mapped into the connection weights of neural networks comprising only a few dozen neurons.”

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292

Easterly vs Wolfers on Hayek’s Influence

Posted: March 16, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Hayek, Knowledge, Knowledge Problems, Methodology, Quotes, Spontaneous Order, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Easterly vs Wolfers on Hayek’s Influence

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Bill Easterly straightens out Justin Wolfers on Hayek’s influence and more importantly Hayek’s ideas.

Wolfers would also benefit from considering this short note by David Skarbek on Hayek’s influence on other Nobel Prize winners.

“What’s the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the [un]hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That’s the consensus among economists. That’s the Hayek legacy” – Larry Summers

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Emergent Order Sighting

Posted: March 14, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Anarchy, Endogenous Rules, Spontaneous Order | Leave a comment »

http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/006928.php

Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison

Posted: March 14, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Anarchy, Endogenous Rules, Spontaneous Order | Leave a comment »

“Inmates of Bolivia’s San Pedro Prison are allowed to open restaurants, offer carpentry services, and operate commissaries that serve nonprisoner visitors and any wives or children who may live with them. They also purchase their own prison cells from each other, provide for their own medical care and often their own meals, and adjudicate their own disputes, leaving the prison’s administrators with little more to do than to keep the prisoners from escaping.”

http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=779