I didn’t expect a short video about an octopus to stay with me this long.
At first, it looks like a simple, almost playful interaction. But the more you watch, the more something deeper emerges: a learning process unfolding between two completely different forms of intelligence.
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When we design artificial systems, are we enabling this kind of open-ended, co-adaptive interaction?
Or are we still building systems that only simulate it from a distance?
Curious to hear how you see this.
#ComplexSystems #AI #Learning
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They don’t fit neatly into our categories.
We tend to look for intelligence inside the individual, but moments like this suggest we should also look "between" individuals.
And maybe that’s the question this raises for us, especially now.
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This is a familiar pattern for complexity scientists:
intelligence as something that emerges from feedback loops, from trial-and-error, from being responsive to another agent.
🐙 with their distributed nervous systems and highly embodied cognition, push us to rethink our default assumptions
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No shared language. No shared evolutionary path. And yet there’s coordination, curiosity, even a kind of mutual calibration.
Strikingly, the “learning” here lives in the interaction: each move reshapes the next, each hesitation, each adjustment, feeds back into the system.
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Beautiful people do not “just happen”…
As we grow (in years, wisdom, experience, or knowledge…) we learn to be grateful for the right things. And to fill out heart with what makes us more human and alive.
⏬This beauty is endless and eternal.
Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Playing. A universal human feature.
Decades ago, a smartphone was not “the” tool. Playing was social. Often a source of SHARED joy. If you can remember creating a “stadium” out of a random space using few things (rocks, cardboard) & shared imagination: you probably had a happy childhood 🥅⚽️
I did😃
Can we do this here 😍? 🐴
A chart comparing income inequality before and after taxes and government benefits for five countries: Japan, Canada, Germany, the US, and South Africa. Inequality is measured here with the Gini coefficient, one of the most common ways to measure inequality. It summarizes the distribution of incomes within a country into a single number ranging from 0 to 1, where higher values indicate higher inequality. The chart shows the Gini coefficients before and after taxes and benefits in five countries: Japan, Canada, Germany, the US, and South Africa, using the latest available data point for each. Income inequality is lower after taxes and benefits. But by how much varies across countries. For example, Germany and the US have the same Gini before taxes and benefits, but after that redistribution, income inequality is lower in Germany than it is in the US. The data source is the Luxembourg Income Study (2025) and the chart is Creative Commons BY license, published by Our World in Data.
When discussing data on income inequality, it's important to be clear about what’s being shown.
Two measures are often used: income *before* people have paid taxes and received benefits from the government, and income *after* government redistribution via taxes and benefits. 🧵
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Exactly… I hope the same— and feel the same way {about not knowing}. Thank you for putting this together in a time were probably very few here can!
Thanks for this thread! @manlius.bsky.social
I see the last data update was the first week of April (before the massive closure of the teams that tracked these statistics- last Monday). I wonder if there will be follow-ups [anytime] soon…
Text: The one who plants trees , knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. Rabindranath Tagore with an image of a tree behind
Staying true to our values. Trusting that what we do (small or big) with purpose, care, ethics, love, and generosity: matters. Eventually. Even (if or when) we are not meant to “see it”. Simple to say; Not easy to live. Worth to try, again… and again. #lifetimejourney
Who do American men and women spend time with over the course of their lives? Scroll through the different charts in the thread to find out 🧵
From afar, we admire talent. Up close, what counts most is character.
You can impress people with your skills, but you earn their trust by standing for something greater than yourself.
There is no higher achievement than treating others kindly and living with integrity.
Could we easily identify a subset of structurally influential people who could maximize social contagion to people we ourselves did not contact with the intervention? science.org/doi/10.1126/... 6/
Hello— migrating from the other platform a bit late… or maybe just in the right time?