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Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Limitations of predicting the future

The future is not fully predictable due to the complexity of human societies and the limitations caused by mathematical chaos. Even predicting purely physical systems like the weather to an extreme degree of accuracy is impossible. This complexity makes accurate prediction of the future at an arbitrary time impossible, as demonstrated by the foundation series by Isaac Asimov being based on what is now understood to be impossible to achieve.

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