The setup of opposing forces leads one to think in terms of entropy ("the fog of war", the manifold of possible mistakes, etc etc).. Then there's that story ab

The setup of opposing forces leads one to think in terms of entropy ("the fog of war", the manifold of possible mistakes, etc etc).. Then there's that story about the break even point between French and Mamluks iirc? (And what was the break even point between LGA and the Coalition?) Somewhere in between we might characterize tech debt; rococo doesn't turn to rubble overnight, & most of it is still around. Or maybe there are some relatively cheap ways to mitigate tech debt. Always backpropagating debugs to spec, for instance. So we could kick the (meta)grokking/turning point down the road https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nassim-taleb-scientific-discovery https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nassim-taleb-scien... >There's no built-in payoff for complexity (or for making things complex). "In academia," though, he says, "there is". [Make sure your phonebooth expands at around the rate that the range of your (melee) weapons/number of participants increase] And those promised tubes are annoyingly hard to find http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2015/02/derek-lowe-to-world-beware-of-von.html?m=1 http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2015/02/derek-lowe-to... Thankfully, Derek has somewhat identified the opponent as, not other scientists, but biology/evolution..