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> Humans really suck at understanding systems, and responding in appropriate timescales - especially when the effects involve exponential growth/decay or tippin
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
> Humans really suck at understanding systems, and responding in appropriate timescales - especially when the effects involve exponential growth/decay or tipping-point phenomena.
We're capable of understanding. What we continue to fail at is priorities, as well as focus. That is, it's difficult to imagine the future and how you as an individual can make an impact when the systems are designed to keep you on The Distraction Diet. Whether that's Keeping up with The Kardashians or some other form of random low-relevance events presented as news.
- toss1 5y agoSure, the top few percent of the intelligence scale get systems just fine. The average college educated person finds complex systems thinking, well, complex. Huge swathes of the electorate find it so confusing that they are easily fooled by BS arguments, disinformation and lies, and vote emphatically directly against their own self interest. Id say that once it gets down to a level of intelligence where the person can tolerate the existence of the distraction diet (well-said!), they are below the level of systems thinking. As Einstein said: "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why so few people do it.".