[HN Gopher] Resilience in Complex Systems (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ Resilience in Complex Systems (2021) Author : grobby Score : 61 points Date : 2023-07-22 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (irhum.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (irhum.github.io) | mjb wrote: | That was a good read. However, it seems like the section on geo | engineering does exactly what the rest tries to warn against: | predicting behavior using simplified first order models. | | I'm biased towards believing the conclusion the author draws, but | the reasoning here is suspect. | grobby wrote: | My understanding on the section on geoengineering is that it's | merely pointing out that the underlying dynamic of the whole | system wouldn't change with a new technology. The dynamic in | question is that humans are applying too much pressure on their | environment, the CO2 emissions are only a symptom. | | In the fox-rabbit analogy, the fox (humans) find a way to eat | rabbits that increases the delta parameter but the equations | themselves don't change. | grobby wrote: | I found the part "Humans in Complex Systems" quite interesting. | My understanding of it is that technology could fall short of | being an adequate solution to a more systemic problem wrt climate | change. In addition to that work, I've been digging around the | perspective of system dynamics [1] on the issues the global | civilization is facing [2]. | | I feel the crowd here is more biased toward a solutionist view on | those issues - I might be very wrong. Anyway, I was curious about | different perspectives on this topics. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics | | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-22 23:00 UTC)