Strategies in Dealing With Complexity

The establishment’s approach to complexity is to control it with one global long term plan. The alternative is to foster lots of small, relatively short term efforts to adapt, ameliorate or harness unexpected developments.

Establishment efforts will always be Too Big To Fail. By contrast the problem solving approach uses failure to learn and make changes.

Perhaps most importantly the diversified approach is inherently competitive whereas establishment efforts are only cosmetically different but they are operationally monolithic.

Detaching oneself from the hive is possible. There’s a lot you can take with you offline. Public domain Gutenberg alone is nearly a terabyte.

Part of freedom is the right to be alone with the problem under consideration, to seek a haven from committee meetings and groupthink. Perhaps the worst thing social media did was define every POV in opposition to another.

Less Spying

One of the advantages of using the standard Internet protocol site (like this) is that you don’t have to give up your information to access the site. Many social media sites are Walled Gardens that leach out your personal details.

Coming here is cheaper, in lost information, than going there. Nobody takes your info at the door.

Speaking for myself it’s a relief to be rid of character limits, little text boxes and overlapping windows.

Many partings

The social media purge means that conflicting sides can no longer abide in the same virtual room. This does not mean a breakdown in communication, just a breakup of the network into components.

Rather than being one loud space the universe will construct rooms. One of advantages of componentization is that POVs need not be one size fits all. It can more easily cross the boundary into concrete action for instance.

The end of predictability

Did China develop the Coronavirus?

Chan is “Scientist-turned-detective | Postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard”

Related: There are “key gaps” in the “interenational community’s” ability to forensically trace the origin of an outbreak and attribute motive to an accident. The limits of current technology to model, control and understand the origin of pathogens has been starkly revealed.

https://nonproliferation.org/op-49-a-guide-to-investigating-outbreak-origins/