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082 - John Boyd, Part 1: Destruction and Creation

General Intellect Unit

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The Complexity of Observation

Social science is a complex thing, observing the most simple tucking things in the universe. That's infinitely complex feeling. But imagine trying to use a particle accelerator to study a practical accelerator. It wouldn't work exactly. The uncertainty would be weighed too high. And that kind goes doubly so if the complex object is you and you are observing yourself. So there are hard limits to self observation. Am becausetse those magnitudes of uncertainty just go through the roof. Makes history a dismal science,. because it happens in real time, and its gome, and it's a complex observer watching infinitely more complex observers. Ah, it's grim.

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