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Shripad Agashe's avatar

Recently I read an article by John Gray on what cats can teach us. One very interesting point in that is that there are no feline suicide warriors. Morality/Ethics at certain scale becomes a war machine.

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Tom Norton's avatar

The insight about how the realized function can be the opposite of the stated function is really interesting, and underlies the focus of complexity science on the interactions between components, and the dependencies therein. If for A to perform it's stated function it requires B to perform it's stated function, then any disruption (i.e. to the stated function A or B) will have implications for the other, which is why redundancies are so important.

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