Complexifiers
7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks
Complexifiers help us deal with the immense scale and complexity of modern society that makes it so difficult for even the smartest and the most dedicated "good-faith" actors to make the decisions needed to wisely and equitably lead modern democracies. We have broken this group down into seven subgroups. These include:
- Political Thinkers nurture the democratic idea and try to figure out how to better adapt it to continually changing realities.
- Behavioral Thinkers focus on finding better ways of adapting democracy to the realities of human neuropsychology and resultant behavior
- Communication Thinkers look for ways to strengthen democracy by correcting distortions in the flow of information, for instance, by helping people successfully listen and talk across differences, by helping people see and overcome cognitive biases, and recognize the difference between good information and mis- or dis-information.
- Social Thinkers look for better ways of understanding and managing tensions and synergies between ideologically, racially, and socially diverse elements of society.
- Technology Thinkers help us understand the complex relationship between the rapid and accelerating technological change and human prosperity, social equity, and human quality of life. Of particular importance right now: the impact of AI on our psychological and social worlds.
- Economic Thinkers help us cultivate market dynamics that promote the general welfare, while limiting those that foster inequities and inefficiencies.
- System Thinkers figure out how to meet the many challenges our societies encounter at the full scale and complexity of modern social systems.
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