[HN Gopher] Resilience in Complex Systems (2021)
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       Resilience in Complex Systems (2021)
        
       Author : grobby
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2023-07-22 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | mjb wrote:
       | That was a good read. However, it seems like the section on geo
       | engineering does exactly what the rest tries to warn against:
       | predicting behavior using simplified first order models.
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       | I'm biased towards believing the conclusion the author draws, but
       | the reasoning here is suspect.
        
         | grobby wrote:
         | My understanding on the section on geoengineering is that it's
         | merely pointing out that the underlying dynamic of the whole
         | system wouldn't change with a new technology. The dynamic in
         | question is that humans are applying too much pressure on their
         | environment, the CO2 emissions are only a symptom.
         | 
         | In the fox-rabbit analogy, the fox (humans) find a way to eat
         | rabbits that increases the delta parameter but the equations
         | themselves don't change.
        
       | grobby wrote:
       | I found the part "Humans in Complex Systems" quite interesting.
       | My understanding of it is that technology could fall short of
       | being an adequate solution to a more systemic problem wrt climate
       | change. In addition to that work, I've been digging around the
       | perspective of system dynamics [1] on the issues the global
       | civilization is facing [2].
       | 
       | I feel the crowd here is more biased toward a solutionist view on
       | those issues - I might be very wrong. Anyway, I was curious about
       | different perspectives on this topics.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
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       | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc
        
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