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I still think LIGO is fundamentally a different sort of civ boundary than the set I'm sorta constructing here, but no question it's an equally demanding one... perhaps distinction is "surface area" of outcome.
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You need the best lasers, the best squeezed light, the best vibrational isolation along about 17 zillion axes, the best simulations and modelling, the best large vacuum, the best [etc etc etc]. Decathlon is a monofocus by comparison...
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With apologies to A. N. Whitehead, Civilization advances by pushing the limit of the number of important operations which we can perform while actively thinking about them.
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Jackson etc represent a sort of hyper-Whitehead mode of advancement. The highest bandwidth (volume x velocity x variety) unautomated thinking you can do on top of the most mature automation available Raising the ceiling, as opposed to the floor or a single pointy spire
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V-V-V was a phrase used to describe big data. Here I’m using it to characterize hypercomplexity Classic complexity: simple rules lead to complex behavior Hypercomplexity: hold my beer Complex rules (showrunner bible, carrier operations manuals) lead to hypercomplex behavior
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Good point. I think they pulled it off because each book of HP except the last is 80% isolated side quest, 20% Voldemort battle. The school-year scaffolding helps that.
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the glaring counterexample being Harry Potter
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A system is merely complex if you can only imagine a James Gleick book about it A system is pseudo-complex or not-even-a-system if you can only imagine a Malcom Gladwell book about it
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It’s more like a variational analysis or perturbation technique rather than a direct account. Sorta like “what a specific complex/hypercomplex system does when you kick it and photograph what happens through an IR filter”
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