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But you're assuming the world is a chaotic function. Don't confuse the ability to add up tiny changes with those changes having a meaningful impact. You can di
by foldingmoney 7y ago
But you're assuming the world is a chaotic function. Don't confuse the ability to add up tiny changes with those changes having a meaningful impact.
You can dip your finger in a river and tell me how a bunch of molecules are displaced and then those molecules displace other molecules and so on in a way that wouldn't otherwise have happened. But for all intents and purposes, the river carries on in its original course as if nothing happened. It doesn't turn into a seething mass, it doesn't reverse course, it doesn't spiral off into infinity.
Sensitivity to initial conditions is relatively rare, and even most chaotic functions only get interesting around certain values.