The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme. The intent is to get a wide variety of perspectives spanning across the humanities, social sciences, arts, sciences, and engineering, presented in an accessible way. The youtube channel with recordings of recent talks is here.
This past year, the theme was "democracy" in its broadest sense. I was honored to be invited last year to contribute a talk, which I gave this past Tuesday, following a presentation by my CS colleague Rodrigo Ferreira about whether AI has politics. Below I've embedded the video, with the start time set where I begin (27:00, so you can rewind to see Rodrigo).
Which (macroscopic) states of matter to we see? The ones that "win the popular vote" of the microscopic configurations.
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