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Learning and Governance (with Emerson Spartz)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Complexity of Systems

The more I study systems, the less confident I am that I understand much of what's going on in the world at all. And so basically you just be a lot more conservative if you don't know why a system is working, which we don't usually know. Like most systems like they kind of work and we have like a vague idea why they work, but like everything's duct taped together and right. We know it's not falling apart, but we're not exactly sure why it works. Yeah. It requires a much more epistemic humility to know how to intervene in systems,. Localism is such an exciting idea because localism is saying like push decentralization to the edges of

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