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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There a Complexity in a System?

The idea is that there's like a fixed amunt of cmplexity in a system, and if you try to reduce it, what you'll end of doing is just migrating the complexity elsewhere. As your programme grows, that complexity expedentially grows of all the things that could go wrong when you're making two things in ract that are, in a wayhat you were expecting not to so yet. The most complex thing weare doing is, is, no high volumed car manufacturing. But arguably now creating soft ware is actually the most complexthing we do. And i'm really interested in this over all reducing communication and reducing how much co-opters need to co-ordinate

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