Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
Professor University of Michigan
Scott E. Page is an American social scientist and John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management at the University of Michigan, where he has been working since 2000. He has also been director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at Michigan (2009–2014) and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. .. more
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Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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My new piece on how LLMs change the physics of deliberation (and democracy)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· May 22
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Interview with Phillip Ball on his book of how life works
Interview with Phillip Ball on his book of how life works
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· May 5
Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?
Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.
www.chronicle.com
By ignoring the work,student do not find themselves. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· May 5
Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?
Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.
www.chronicle.com
`` I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” Joseph Conrad
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· May 5
Scott Page on Complex Systems Thinking and Diversity
Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · 04/21/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
Wide ranging discussion on all things complex and unequal with Steven Durlauf podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Mar 27
Princeton Classics
press.princeton.edu
Pleased to announce that The Difference has been reissued as a Princeton Classic!! press.princeton.edu/collections/...
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
www.science.org
Thought provoking essay on AI as a cultural and social technology, opposed to as an augmenter or agent.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Feb 26
I organized a department salon on the double descent phenomenon - as you add more parameters you can overcome bias -variance tradeoff. Two key slides and cite attached.
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Feb 20
www.morganstanley.com
Great piece on probability,expected value, loss aversion, decision making and volatility by Michael Mauboussin
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Feb 14
drew-johnston.com
In countries with fewer cross gender online “friends” women’s labor participation rates are lower
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Moderna
Accelerating the development of life-saving treatments.
openai.com
Moderna created 750 GPTs in house openai.com/index/moderna/ The brilliant Brice Challamel explains how in this exhilarating podcast www.beyondtheprompt.ai AI is assistant, expert, coach, and co-creator. Everyone is now a 5 person team! Using AI is not nearly as risky as not using AI!
Scott Page
@scottepage.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Creativity Test from my Collective Intelligence Course. Make a list of DOG names s.t. each sequential pair is a "funny" combination
Example:
1. Pecan
2. Butter
3. Peanut
4. Mister
5. Rogers
6. Jolly
7. Rancher
Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, ..
Example:
1. Pecan
2. Butter
3. Peanut
4. Mister
5. Rogers
6. Jolly
7. Rancher
Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, ..