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> why on Earth stable systems are even possible... They aren't, but it just looks like they exist. The more complex something is, the less likely it is to noti
by someweirdperson 4y ago
> why on Earth stable systems are even possible...
They aren't, but it just looks like they exist. The more complex something is, the less likely it is to notice a bug in the complex dependencies.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoTaken literally - "why on Earth", as in, in nature - it becomes a matter of timescale. Something we seem to be only fully realizing now - ecosystems and climate are in constant flux; they may look stable on a timescale of a human lifetime, or the lifetime of a society, but at the scale of several centuries or more, they're chaotic.