Hello everyone, welcome to the April 2022 Ask Me Anything Edition of the Blindscape Podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

A couple of days late again, sorry about that.

Once again, this time my excuse was for the past three weeks I've been in Santa Fe,

visiting the Santa Fe Institute as I usually do in my role as what is called a fractal faculty

member. I'm supposed to go there several weeks a year and it's like a part-time position,

basically. It's the equivalent of summer salary for those academics out there.

I get my little part-time change of pace for my regular job by going to SFI.

And of course it's an amazing fun to be at SFI but I try not to do any podcasts while I was there

because well for one thing I'm supposed to be there doing SFI-type stuff and for another,

I'm not at home in my office where I can control the audio quality. So I did one podcast interview,

turns out that the loft that I was staying in while I was there was quite echoey.

So I went into the office to do the podcast interview. I think it did okay.

I'm not going to tell you which one it was upcoming. So if you can't tell, then I win. If you can

tell, so be it. Sometimes we deal with what we're stuck with. But like I said, SFI is an amazing

place. It's unique, right? It's a research institute in a very beautiful location in Santa Fe.

Not the easiest to get to. I wish it were easier to get there, but you can get there.

And devoted to the sciences of complexity in all of their forms.

You know, the original founders were a lot of physicists, Murray Gell-Mann, Phil Anderson,

George Cohen, and people who are at Los Alamos. But it's expanded by quite a bit intellectually

into economics and anthropology and mathematics and a whole bunch of different things. So I don't

know anywhere else in the world. I think this is literally true. Anywhere else in the world where

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