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Isn't part of the butterfly effect narrative that a number of things were already balanced at such a delicate point that they could be tipped?
by ethbro 9y ago
Isn't part of the butterfly effect narrative that a number of things were already balanced at such a delicate point that they could be tipped?
- adharmad 9y agoMaybe the butterfly effect analogy was a bit facetious, but I don't see David Bonderman resigning and Amit Singhal being forced out in an alternate universe where Susan Fowler does not write the blog.
- btilly 9y agoNo, or at least not as originally propounded. The point of the butterfly effect is that every small input magnifies so much in a chaotic system over time that you won't be able to predict it correctly if you miss any detail, even one so insignificant as a single flap of a single butterfly's wings. The moral being that a chaotic system is fundamentally unpredictable in detail, and can only be predictable in averages and aggregates. (So we can predict climate, but not weather.)