Rather than Conquest's Second Law, why not try out Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy …
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev These laws are pretty much new to me. I went looking for causal explanations of second law and found nothing much?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev of course if it’s just an empirical regularity, that’s fine, but a causal story would be more convincing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Nrxns like to throw them around, I'm trying to take down the 2nd as a bad frame.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Is there any sort of statistical work here, or is it just anecdata?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Less a Law than a Credo.
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