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I would go a bit further than that, and posit that most complex or interesting systems resist the construction of concise, accurate narratives and that one reas
by xyzzy123 3y ago
I would go a bit further than that, and posit that most complex or interesting systems resist the construction of concise, accurate narratives and that one reason we fail in our management of complex economic, political and ecological systems is because the stories we tell ourselves about them are too simple to capture the truth about highly-dimensional systems with lots of feedback.