Is there a word for “this is achievable but not in one step.”? Like, in a lot of ways the world is closer to utopian than it was 1000 years ago but every attempt to make a utopia all in one go has sucked ass
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Every part of a rocket launch is made up of a thousand other parts achieved individually
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Voltaire said the perfect is the enemy of the good but I feel this doesn’t go far enough to convey the mechanistic practical sense of what I want to mean
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i don't know of a concise term, people have talked about it a thousand ways this minute i might say something like "cybernetically irreducible precondition complexity"
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this is why i can't be a good leftist, though, i do complex systems for a living, i know what happens when you do "let's just blow up the whole thing and start over" when all that's at stake is swords made of pixels, if you wanna do that with people's lives on the line holy shit
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also keeps me from being a few kinds of good rightist i suppose
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i’m feeling a greater sense of ideological alignment with the selectists and startists
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Replying to @chaosprime @drethelin
the selectists won't let you in, you have to be chosen, and the startists never finish anything
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