I’m looking for varied examples of a stable relationship of two things being destabilized by the introduction of a third thing.
Obvious examples are love triangles, independent candidates in 2-party elections, adding a 3rd body to a 2-body gravitational system…
Candidates?
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There's an intense debate in Spain wether potato tortilla should also include onion or not (the dish is basically potato and egg)
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Also thinking of this as a special-case of Self-Organized Criticality in case that's a keyword that helps identify particular systems that collapse at threshold 3.
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Don't have an example, but in our household, we have the saying that "triangles are pointy"
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