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If humans were removed from the equation, we could accurately model the economy and climate (to a reasonable degree). Human randomness adds too much entropy to

If humans were removed from the equation, we could accurately model the economy and climate (to a reasonable degree). Human randomness adds too much entropy to the system to accurately model it.

zaphar 10y ago
That is a claim I'm not sure I believe. Why do you think removing Humans would reduce the complexity sufficiently to model the weather which any usable accuracy?
ncallaway 10y ago
The climate is perfectly chaotic without human involvement. Much the same way that the three body problem is chaotic whether there are people involved or not.
- jackmott 10y ago
  the climate is a lot less chaotic than weather, and aspects of it are not so hard to model correctly. For instance the IPCC far projections for global average temp from 1990 have been very good.
  - ncallaway 10y ago
    Apologies. You're correct. I should have said that weather is chaotic.