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The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity
PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma
Emergence of specialized third-party enforcement
PNAS, Vol. 120, No. 24 Abstract The question of how cooperation evolves and is maintained among nonkin is central to the biological, social, and behavioral sciences. Previous research has focused on exp
A broken process - the Swedish health care system asks for expert advice
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 27. No. 2, p. 57–70. Abstract This paper analyses the process in which expert reports on health care governance are commissioned, produced and receive
Robert Goodin: Structures of Complicity
Structures of Complicity: Consumers, Producers, Suppliers with Professor Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University AbstractUnder certain circumstances, businesses and consumers might be morally
Anandi Hattiangadi: Artificial General Intelligence: A Manifesto
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Anandi Hattiangadi, professor of philosophy at Stockholm University and a researcher at the Institute
Anandi Hattiangadi: Artificial General Intelligence - A Manifesto
The race is on to produce artificial general intelligence (AGI)—machines that are at least as intelligent as humans—despite widespread concern that an AGI would pose an existential threat to humankind
Networked reports: Commissioning and production of expert reports on Swedish healthcare governance
Politics & Policy 50(1): 59–76. Abstract The article analyzes the commissioning and production of expert reports about Swedish health care management and governance. We show that these reports are r
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Are animals needed for food supply, efficient resource use, and sustainable cropping systems? An argumentation analysis regarding livestock farming
Food Ethics, vol. 9 Abstract It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would otherwise be lost from the
Staffan Julén
I am Head of communications at the Institute for Futures Studies, documentary film director and producer. At the institute I have among other things been working on a research project financed by the where I examined how artistic subjective narration can develop the documentary film.