Category errors break everything around me
It is a category error to apply the adjective “broken” to a complex system. Complicated systems break. Complex systems merely enter hostile configurations relative to you. They’re not fixed by your functional expectations. They’re still working. Just not for you.
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They are “not working” if they were specified and designed for fail-safe reliability and are nevertheless not doing that..
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It may provide legalistic solace to note that, but there’s a real difference between a car that’s broken by losing a wheel, versus one that’s simply been taken over by a different driver who’s going somewhere else.
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Reminds me of Noam Chomsky: “I have a rather conservative attitude towards social change: since we’re dealing with complex systems which nobody understands very much, the sensible move I think is to make changes and then see what happens—and if they work, make further changes.”
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Nor can you "dismantle" them.
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@vgr defined complex systems in a related way herehttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1140681273725206528?s=21 …
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Organisms and ecologies may become diseased, and eventually die
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A rainforest pushed beyond the point of recovery loses its richness, variety and life
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