David Kinney

Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute

David Kinney is an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and primary investigator on the Foundations and Applications of Cultural Analytics in the Humanities project, based at the Santa Fe Institute and in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, from 2020-2023.

Written by David Kinney

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The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune

Complexity science reveals the hard limits of our predictive abilities, and makes a mathematical case for compassion

by David Kinney