Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" – Philip K Dick. Parent comment
One reason we teach Meadows as one component of intellectual self-defence.
https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=19
But you're right, the ability to see how a great network of systems and subsystems, all trying to make things better, can add up to a lethal "trap" with its own perverse intelligence (I quite like the Adam Curtis slant) is elusive.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
One reason we teach Meadows as one component of intellectual self-defence.
https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=19
But you're right, the ability to see how a great network of systems and subsystems, all trying to make things better, can add up to a lethal "trap" with its own perverse intelligence (I quite like the Adam Curtis slant) is elusive.