I think the ideal approach to developing systemic competence is sort of iterating between metis-based knowledge and systems
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you probably cant build a system out of simple metis nearly as easily as you can from techne and episteme, but its hard to build a functional system if you ignore the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies that get filed off at higher levels of abstraction
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or rather. you have to be very careful about which bits you file off the kind of question I think you might want to ask a person with local or tacit knowledge is "what would happen if we did X" where X is some part of an imagined system that they might interact with
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i think what i am maybe trying to get at is that people with metis have knowledge that is 1. resistant to systematization and yet 2. highly relevant to the operation of some systems and they are often the people who are most likely to be able to tell you why a system may fail
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i wish I were more coherent. brain not super working, examples I have are not perfect. common cases come from economic Planning. top level people set regulations that backfire hilariously that could have been resolved with feedback about how regulated people might respond
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for example. Soviet planners wanted to increase production of chandeliers. so they set goals for factories to produce them and rewarded them for the amount they produced. measured by weight. soon USSR had heaviest chandeliers in the world. massively unwieldy
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i have no evidence that this happened but its the sort of thing one could easily believe happened a fun and true one came from new yorks $100 no questions asked gun buyback program no one in new york knew that the Walmart outside the five boroughs sold shitty rifles for $50
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another fun case is the Zimbabweans seizure of farms from people who were farmers and the subsequent division of the land and its distribution to people with no farming experience simple systematic model of land = wealth that went about as well as youd expect
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from a high enough vantage point yeah it sure did seem like people with a lot of farmland did end up relatively rich. so maybe if we just divvied it up well of course they could have used a little more texture in their model
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