
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
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.