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post · Jun 2024
The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges
A clear walkthrough of computational-mechanics work on how hierarchical levels of organisation emerge from swarms of microscopic interactions.
Quanta Magazine paper · Jun 2025Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective
SFI’s Krakauer brothers and Melanie Mitchell apply rigorous complex-systems criteria to whether LLM “emergent abilities” are real emergence.
arXiv 2506.11135