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EP10 David Krakauer: Complexity Science

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Controlling Conflicts in Complex Systems

A hallmark of a well-ordered society is one where the number of police is relatively small in proportion to the total population. We're now at a point where we study large-scale wars in whole continents like Africa using techniques from statistical mechanics called the renormalization group. So this goes way beyond policing because you're no longer intervening just into single individuals, but into a principled subset of the population to achieve a desired outcome.

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