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Always going to be worth watching, but kind of a shame that they had to talk on such a basic level. I'm sure a 30 minute conversation with those two could be very interesting.

Wasn't a whole lot more than them explaining that the system is very complex and hard to predict, and worringly prone to catastrophic events.




Well, they did mention one fundamental problem which also hints at the solution: the system is too optimized thus it is very fragile, susceptible to amplify even tiny perturbations.

Basically, we need to give up some performance and uncouple interacting elements to get more resilient system.


Good point, would have liked them to talk about possible ways ameliorate this factor.


Why are they worrying about the economy when the Arctic is melting?




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