A widely accepted model of collapse (Tainter) is that societies collapse when they get “too complex” in some sense. But this is an almost uselessly solipsistic tautology. How complex is too complex? Logs are interesting is that they are an external complexity signature.
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This is something like a system being too complex to penetrate for a typical outsider *without* need for a policed boundary. Ironically, my writing is almost an example of this. Hard to get into unless you were with me for the growth phase before it vanished up its own... navel.
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A logging process is a designed version of the natural process of complex systems producing a heat signature with an extractable information component. By information theory, all systems do this. Perfect secrets-keeping is impossible.
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Even black holes produce a “log” process (google black hole information paradox/Hawking radiation). So complexity-collapse is like a black hole formation. A singularity creating event that should produce a “death shriek”
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