Hello everyone, welcome to the August 2022 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast.

I'm your host Sean Carroll. Speaking here from Santa Fe, New Mexico,

where I'm doing one of my occasional visits to the Santa Fe Institute,

where I'm a fractal faculty member, SFI, Santa Fe Institute is one of the world's

most amazing places to just sit and talk and think and do research,

full of multi-disciplinary people with wonderful ideas who are willing to talk to each other.

It's easy to get a bunch of people in a room with different perspectives,

but here at SFI they specialize in bringing together people who come together for the purpose

of talking to people unlike them in whatever they do or whatever they think about.

So it's a great environment to be in. It's also a target rich environment for guests

for the Mindscape Podcast. Several former guests have been around, Jeffrey West,

the president, ex-president of SFI, was one of our very first guests here at Mindscape.

And a couple of potential future guests are also hanging around.

One former guest who I saw a talk by is Simon Dedeo, who I know very well.

Simon did a Mindscape Podcast interview on explanation and what it means,

but his real day job is social cognition and decision making.

So what you mean by this is how not just one person,

but many people interacting with each other come to conclusions, making decisions.

And since I have a rough informal policy of not repeating guests here at Mindscape,

so even though that would be a great thing to talk about, I'll just briefly tell you

the point of his paper to put some ideas into your head.

What they did, Simon and his collaborators, was study Reddit.

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