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Jim Spohrer 2024

@spohrer.bsky.social

210 followers 140 following 34 posts

Books, Science, Nature (good hikes in California), Service Science, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Quest for Geothermal-Powered , Master-Mechanic-Robot for Family Farms.

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James C. Spohrer is a computer scientist best known for having led the development of a new science of service systems, often known as service science, management and engineering.

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Stanislaw Lem's "The Cyberiad" - lots of fables of constructors who can build anything. Read it 50 years ago - thought it good. Re-reading it now - Lem was a time traveler - great stuff.

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Bend in the road

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looks good. I need to stop by.

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks for the excellent town hall meet

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Homestead Avenue 2

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Gunsmoke “The photographer”

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Homestead A enue

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Nobu Hosokawa @nob-dreamstate.bsky.social · Jul 11

Here is the photo with my mentor!

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · Jul 4

New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)

Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jul 3

Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Coastal fog - in retreat.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jun 9

Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail

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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · May 22

From Nichols Kristoff on NYT

www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...

198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind

www.aeinstein.org

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · May 20

Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · May 20

Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

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Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social · May 11

🌍 Learning for Sustainability
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.

📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...

🧪 #LfSinsights

Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity - learningforsustainability.net

Systems design explained, with key concepts and links to tools that support systems thinking, planning, and collaboration in complex contexts.

learningforsustainability.net

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Mar 30

Coyote Lake in the distance

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Mar 21

How fast is AI getting better at long tasks?
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...

Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doub...

metr.org

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Mar 21

AI is not very good at:
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Mar 21

AI is very good at:
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Mar 8

Orion over Apple spaceship

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Feb 15

Neighbors napping

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jan 27

Blue sky

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jan 27

Delighted this arrived today!

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jan 19

Above the clouds

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Oak tree

Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Jan 1

New Year 2025

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · Jan 1

Every Jan 1 I post a scorecard on predictions I made, with dates, on Jan 1, 2018 on cars (self-driving), robots, AI, & ML, and on human spaceflight. Besides telling which turned out right and which wrong in the last year I also talk a lot of smack about these topics. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks

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Jim Spohrer 2024 @spohrer.bsky.social · Dec 29

Distant storm