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> After thinking about energy for so long, I began to wonder—as others have – whether applying physics concepts to social systems could help them run better. T
by sn41 4y ago
> After thinking about energy for so long, I began to wonder—as others have – whether applying physics concepts to social systems could help them run better.
This is the point where I say "uh oh".
- cwillu 4y agoThe time for action is when they start reorganizing things into neat rectangular grids. “Ye olde organically-evolved peasant villages tended to be complicated confusions of everybody trying to raise fifty different crops at the same time on awkwardly shaped cramped parcels of land. Modern scientific rationalists came up with a better idea: giant collective mechanized farms growing purpose-bred high-yield crops and arranged in (say it with me) evenly-spaced rectangular grids.” https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
- mjklin 4y agoYour “physics envy” alarm went off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy