I'm not sure institutions work beyond a narrow operating range.
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… ecosystems—what Kickstarter could have invented the University in the Dark Ages?
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That's like asking "how can the blogosphere sustain newspapers." Necessity of functional form cannot be assumed. Must be proven.
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I don't get it. How's that zen parable relevant here?
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I don’t know the context of the original parable, but its use their about stable states seems relevant.
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but he actually recovered a very conservative worst-case strategy (in control, it's known as robust H_inf control...).
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"how do you design an org or market for T>T_horizon, when you don't have model beyond the finite horizon.
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… has a lot to say about definitions of robustness, optimality, etc. under those conditions.
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@paulg I think this is a corollary of thinking about Buxton Indices. Here's how Dijkstra described it:


