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Emergence, Complexity, Chaos & Technological Risk

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This blog reflects my interests in science and technology and how we manage the risks associated with them. Risk, cognitive psychology, uncertainty, chaos, fuzziness, network theory, emergence and deep complexity are all areas that can provide us with important insights into how humans attempt to manage their affairs in an uncertain world.

So why Dark Matter as a title? Because  I’d rather deal with a dark truth than a white lie.

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  • About Me


  • I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.

  • what are the facts?

    Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?

    You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

    Robert Heinlein (1978)

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  • my dark matters

    • Problems at the US NRC huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/gre… Tweeted: 3 days ago
    • Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources, only success can tell one from another." Ernst Mach, 1905 Tweeted: 1 week ago
    • "Things that have never happened before happen all the time." Scott D. Sagan - The Limits of Safety Tweeted: 1 week ago
    • "The enemy of safety is complexity." Behind Human Error, Woods et al, Ashgate 2010 p 23 Tweeted: 1 week ago
    • Engineering a Safer World wp.me/px0Kp-1mk Tweeted: 3 weeks ago
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    • Engineering a Safer World
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    • Decision Making Theory and the Risk Matrix
    • Unintended Interactions and Interface Hazard Analysis
    • Description Errors and Irreversible Commands
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    • System Safety Society
    • The Less Wrong Wiki
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  • Categories

    • Cognitive psychology (41)
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