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"Just do that simple thing, it will fix the problem" rarely works all that well for the complex system unless "this thing" is "stop doing something that makes i
by ilyt 3y ago
"Just do that simple thing, it will fix the problem" rarely works all that well for the complex system unless "this thing" is "stop doing something that makes it worse".
Like that one time China decided sparrows are a problem then discovered what they exactly eat aside from grain...
- rtpg 3y agoI know these kinds of stories, and people like to say them. But they don’t distinguish from “spray water into the air to fix global warming” and “put iodine into table salt to fix an entire populations iodine deficiency”. Sometimes the simple solution works! The reality is that even simple solutions involve a lot of work at a large scale.
- ilyt 3y agoSometimes they work, sure but for systems that complex it's far too easy to do much worse than better.