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Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a Need for a Swat Team in a Domestic Dispute?

i like to think about this in terms of how many layers of self determination really need does a system of a given size? It's more like geoffrey west talking about circulatory systems and saying, you know, an elephant has more branch points between the aorta and the capillaries because it's a bigger animal. Even if we don't think about criminal justice or policing, even, let's say take medicine, right during the pandemic, we were all wanting to buy the oximeters right to measure, for example, how much oxigent you have in your blood. So these are all really interesting questions, and very difficult to solve with technology. And so some of

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