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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      2/ This is the main source of uncertainty. Unknown unknowns of the quiescent variety. "Ancient evil awakens" tropes are a motif of this

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      3/ Stability for its own sake is a pastoral fetish. Quasi-stability as controlled awakening of ancient evils is technology.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      4/ When a complex system deviates too far from equilibrium, it basically turns into a new system as awakened dynamics overcome known ones

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      5/ Fascinating thing about climate change is not the debate around known unknowns, but threshold at which unknown unknowns will take over

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      6/ We can anticipate/compute at most to 2nd order effects (say ocean acidification killing bottom of food chain for example).

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      7/ The fun begins if problem "gets away" from us and we (full-human "we") are forced into purely reactive mode.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      8/ That means new dynamics will be gaining energy faster than we are managing energies in the old dynamics.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      9/ And nobody will have any idea how long the transient to a new (unknown-unknown) equilibrium will last.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      10/ Where I mean equilibrium in broadest homeostasis/autopoiesis strange attractor sense, not naive game theory/linear systems sense.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      11/ Admission: I personally don't care much at all about survival of species/people getting hurt so long as I and friends/family survive.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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      12/ What truly interests me about CC is just that it appears to be the first massive experiment in trying to control a true complex system

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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          13/ (my pre-blogger/consultant life was in systems and control theory, and this is just a deliciously interesting problem to think about)

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        3. Jussi Liukkonen‏ @jusliukk 30 Sep 2015
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          @vgr recent unexpected findings suggest that the transient is already underway - and nobody knows what the new equilibrium is :/

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        2. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 30 Sep 2015
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          @vgr How does this interact with it also being a collective action problem?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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          @atduskgreg the collective action bit is just another piece to think about and shape (see my ribbonfarm piece yesterday). No special status.

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        2. Sandy Ressler‏ @sressler 30 Sep 2015
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          @vgr what is CC?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Sep 2015
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          @sressler climate change

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        1. ValueContentment‏ @Cheepcheepcopy 6 Oct 2015
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          @vgr What about any political experiment? Like Lenin's New Economic Policy?

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