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To cite, please use timestamped PDF by Adam Timlett Note: What follows is a technical overview of the 'innovation cipher' concept to demonstrate the background research and science it is based on. This article is not the material used to guide participants in our workshops. The way to leverage this concept effectively is by a guided workshop led by our expert facilitators and educators which will make the process tailored to your product's innovation potential, and, most impo

Timestamped PDF for download and citation In The 2nd Invisible Hand I argued that Nature may be exploiting other options around growth to control problems such as pollution and exhaustion of resources from over-exploitation. One interesting example of this may be the courtship of flamingos, whose complexity I argue is a cryptographic effect for the flamingos themselves, to navigate a complex process that limits the ability of flamingos to efficiently reproduce, so protecting

The title image looks at a three way game involving the idea of triadic closure. This is a theory from graphs that demonstrates the idea that interesting interactions can be 3-way not simply 2-way. In standard teaching of game theory we model the simplest possible games of cooperation as games in which there are only two players. While we do talk about one player games, these types of games are those in which one player makes all decisions, and so there is no conception that

It was my pleasure to give a talk about how, in Nature, organisms cope with deep uncertainty as part of their management of their own...

'On the Origin of Risk' is available on all formats! On the Origin of Risk presents a new way of understanding the deep biases we have in the business and scientific communities in our theories of risk and the core concepts we use to manage risk, especially as organisations. It presents the evidence and argument from cutting-edge biology that risk is managed differently in organisms in Nature, and that we must learn from Nature in order to develop new theories and lead our ma

I recently gave a tallk on how to leverage cutting-edge biology to solve organisational problems with a focus on software teams and...

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Stance Sketch, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Download timestamped PDF for citation Managing risk, both opportunity and adversity is about optimising for both for what you can produce now, and what the future may require, and this can look messy. In biology, this is about producing the optimal mixture of both finished products, and also optimising their parts for use in different future products the organism may expect to need. In a sense, this is similar to a

Timestamped PDF for download and citation: Untitled, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Introduction In this article I will present several different pieces of evidence that point towards the idea that the human mind is the product of the brain encoding information cryptographically . I will argue that this means that cryptographic capacity is synonymous with extreme algorithm flexibility . In other words, the cryptographic encoding of an algorithm is also just a

PDF with timestamp certificate for download and citation. Introduction Searle’s Chinese Room is a thought experiment which is supposed to prime our intuition against the possibility that the brain is simply some type of computer. It has a long history. First published in 1980, it came to my awareness only in the 1990s, when it was then mainly being discussed in the context of progress in things like early neural networks and whether such ‘sub-symbolic’ architectures made Sear

This post is to provide access to a PDF which summarises a presentation I recently gave to the the Rationality Vienna group. I really enjoyed the discussion afterwards, and the opportunity to present the latest version of my ideas and work. In the presentation is a, hopefully, intuitive summary of the ideas that biological systems manage risk differently, and I also delve more into the relationship between this and computer theory. Specifically, I look at much more detail int

This post is to present access to a PDF describing a theory related to meta-modularity, my main argument for how risk is managed in biological systems. Label theory is a way to understand intuitively the potential value of 'cross-talk' in a system. The signalling systems and the gene regulatory systems in biological systems like the cells and the cell signalling in the human organism are full of cross-talk. This is the process whereby one signalling system interacts with a s