Effective mass infrastructure literacy is only connected to complex systems understandings of such infrastructure via a few critical model parameters.
“Wash your hands” and “social distance”
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“Well on a scale-free graph, an exponential becomes fractal”
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If all you’re ever exposed to is the former, it will seem arbitrary and authoritarian. You’ll either get religious about compliance or resist. Depends on how you view authority. The behaviors are indistinguishable from superstition unless you gain literacy in the second mode.
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The “only thing to fear is insufficient fear” effect has been fascinating. People are reacting with a fear premium beyond their personal risk that doesn’t seem altruistic in tone. It’s a fear that’s proportionate to a sort of internalized individualized amortized collective risk.
