[FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus

[Marcus Daniels]

Going back to the original thread you split (subject line), I would probably have more concern for parallax if I thought there were different perspectives and some kind of nuance that was at risk.    Metaphorically speaking, we aren’t driving in the fog or snow, we are driving on a cool, dry, summer evening, but with the lights off, well over the legal blood alcohol limit, at about 130 mph.    Open the door and jump out while there is still time.    Next time we’ll send the Tesla on autopilot and it can escort them to the authorities for processing.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 7:13 PM
To: "friam at redfish.com" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trans/Post Homo Erectus/Sapiens/Faber/Hiveus




< We can turn up the brightness and narrow the focus to maximize flux, but for many problems, that is not unlike hitting our high beams in a snowstorm or fogbank.   One of the things I hope (mostly in vain, but not entirely) for from this list is discussion of how to apply Complex Systems Theory to predicting something more interesting/relevant to the human tragicomedy being played out right.  >

Switch to synthetic aperture radar in fog.  ☺

https://semiengineering.com/here-comes-high-res-car-radar/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Kanade_method>

Good one.  I *was* going to invoke the work Takeo Kenade (CMU) presented here a year or so ago, based on his (Lucas-Kenade) Optical Flow algorithms to detect/predict the pattern of rain/snow a fraction of a second later such that the headlights (imaging projectors) can mask the beam, minimizing the egregious illumination of rain/snow/sleet.    As a metaphor, I don't know if it helps in this discussion, but it was a good example of fairly straightforward but highly motivated adaptation of  existing technology.

Your synthetic aperture imaging via arrays (formal, ad hoc, phased, radio, light, sound... ) probably provide a better metaphor.   This is one of the reasons I'm very interested in other people's perspectives on many topics...  if done well (which I can't claim I do) it seems that such ubiquitous parallax can yield some of the same things synthetic apertures can...  like post-hoc focus and depth extraction.

Unfortunately both of these are merely sophisticated engineering mathematics, probably closer to what Asimov's Psychohistory gestured at.

Projects like our own Merle Lefkoff's Center for Emergent Diplomacy<https://www.emergentdiplomacy.org/> and ASU's Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative<https://complexity.asu.edu/> show promise... I suppose I should quit blathering on here and do a more diligent literature search...   There are initiatives at SFI that are somewhat relevant that I don't (bother to?) follow.

Mumble,

 - Steve
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