Greater Than Code
Greater Than Code
104: Jellyfish Signaling with Sam Livingston-Gray
01:33 – Is Sam a Jellyfish?
03:14 – Sam’s Superpower: Making Connections Between Weird Things
05:17 – Driving Evolution
08:19 – “Fitness Landscape” and “Fitness Function”
21:17 – How Humans Make Decisions
Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies
33:43 – Completion Bias
40:52 – The Importance of Clarity of Communication in Code
45:49 – Mimicry and The Theory of Mind
52:18 – Scaling, Optimizing, and Thriving as Individuals and Communities
57:38 – Rhetoric and Interacting with People
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