Sean Carroll
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26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Sep
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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one observer like you, that it's okay to prefer the ones that have a slightly bigger probability of getting an observer like you.
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I don't think that that's too presumptuous.
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I think that's just doing good science.
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Ken Wolfe says in your talk with Luis Betancourt, you discussed how the size of the city that a person lives in can change their behavior right down to things like how fast they walk.
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I could not help but think of a previous episode where Mark Berman made a distinction between directed or top-down attention and involuntary or bottom-up attention.
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Could it be that a feature of larger cities is that there are simply more things which are forcing us to direct our attention, leaving less time and opportunity for involuntary attention?
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Could it could that be a source of these changes in behavior?
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Um it could be that is possible, as you know, that's gonna be my answer.
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Um
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Mark Berman and Luis Betancourt are colleagues at the University of Chicago.
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They collaborate together and they talk to each other.
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So I'm sure they have thought about this.
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Uh my impression is that, um
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the people like Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West, who is his collaborator also, who thought about the city scaling laws and the superlinear and sublinear behavior, etcetera,
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are less concerned with the mechanism and more concerned with just figuring out that it happens.
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I think or at least their kinds of mechanisms are not down at the psychological level.
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They're at the network level of people bumping into each other.
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Okay.
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Um you I think they would say you walk faster in a city with a large population because um the entire rate of all processes is
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Faster.
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