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038 - The Viable System Model

General Intellect Unit

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Is There a Vulnerable System Model?

The VSM's theory is that all actually viable systems kind of match this pattern if you squint at them. Sometimes you'll find a vestigial tail or a gap, right? Like a like a classic one is like founder syndrome for like startups where the founder is involved in just fucking everything and they wouldn't have survived without him. So yeah, that's an important one that like, this, it's not so much a proscriptive model. Well, it kind of is in some ways, but it is definitely a descriptive or diagnostic model.

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