Metagov x Future of Science Seminar: Scaling Digital Support Systems with David Sisson
This presentation argues that digitization has been highly disruptive to decision support systems. Using a generalized three-stage architecture, this presentation shows how uneven digital automation across the system's stages creates severe scaling challenges. Early applicability of digital automation to the initial information processing stage induced a bottleneck in the second, largely manual, knowledge processing stage, which organizations have tried to solve by hiring massive teams of analysts. Recent advances in generalized computation, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), offer a path to automating this knowledge work. The presentation concludes by predicting that this digital augmentation of knowledge processing will ease the current bottleneck in partially digitized decision support systems, which has the potential to fundamentally alter the competitive landscape, enabling smaller, more agile organizations to achieve a level of decision-making sophistication that was previously the exclusive domain of tech giants.
More about Metagov Seminar:
The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.
The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.
Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)
Location: Online. See our Research Seminars Series for meeting information
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More about the Future of Science Seminar:
The Future of Science Seminar is reopening in collaboration with the Metagov Seminar after a one-year hiatus.
The Seminar invites researchers to present their research on Metascience and how we will move towards a more modular, composable, and equitable research ecosystem.
Check out the archives of past seminars and podcast episodes on their website.