Dr. Justin Lane is an #academic researcher, cognitive scientist, computer #programmer, creator of @CulturePulse, a societal simulation company powered by a predictive computer model for online communities and subgroups. While at the University of Oxford, Dr. Lane implemented aspects of Pythia to model the emergence and escalation of religious violence within an artificial society. The psychologically realistic model consisted of an arbitrary number of individuals, each of which had different levels of religious conviction. Dr. Lane's work has since been featured by BBC News, Times, Vice, and Seeker. Lane has also compiled the world's largest structured database of religious sermons to be used in research. He is presently training generative AI religious leaders in his @Cloud Comfort project. From 2007 to 2009, Justin was my bike mechanic in @Burlington, VT where we were attending college and we've been friends ever since. In 2013, when the University of Oxford contacted Justin to request his attendance. Later when we were talking, he referred his now PhD from Oxford as a "solid backup degree" as—at the time—he was finishing @Warren, an early-iteration of Pythia that predicted stock fluctuations, in part, by "using fractal dimensionality to predict volatility." Our fascinations with world collided when, needing a quantitative method for @Reddit Marketing, I asked him if Pythia could be used with @Reddit's publicly available, social data. Interest from my colleagues advanced the timeline for creation of, and his entry into, the @One Incubator. Justin lives in Slovakia with his wife, their son, and his Viking-like beard.

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He holds a Bachelors in Psychology and Bachelors in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont, Masters in Cognition and Culture from Queen's University Belfast, and a Doctorate in Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

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