New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a good example of a complex system?
Ask HN: Is there a good example of a complex system?
3 by ordu | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I notice that I cannot explain people on internet discussion the idea of a complexity and a complex system. Somehow I often end up in a deadlock when trying to explain my understanding of (for example) society processes, the difficulties of tackling problems, because people tends to believe, that if a little more effort was done, then problems would go away. Thinking about it, I'm trying to show people an example of something that couldn't be understood easily. Even worse: their inability to understand my example, to get an experience to feel themselves overwhelmed by a complexity, is a goal of mine. It feels like a self-defeating goal, it has a self-contradictory feeling. So the question is: had you succeeded explaining people that there are things so complex, that their complexity couldn't be managed regardless of amount of resources one might put into management? If you had, how you did it? Is it even possible without spending few hours speaking passionately?
3 by ordu | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I notice that I cannot explain people on internet discussion the idea of a complexity and a complex system. Somehow I often end up in a deadlock when trying to explain my understanding of (for example) society processes, the difficulties of tackling problems, because people tends to believe, that if a little more effort was done, then problems would go away. Thinking about it, I'm trying to show people an example of something that couldn't be understood easily. Even worse: their inability to understand my example, to get an experience to feel themselves overwhelmed by a complexity, is a goal of mine. It feels like a self-defeating goal, it has a self-contradictory feeling. So the question is: had you succeeded explaining people that there are things so complex, that their complexity couldn't be managed regardless of amount of resources one might put into management? If you had, how you did it? Is it even possible without spending few hours speaking passionately?
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