Hypersensitivity

One symptom of a society approaching some critical point is autocorrelation. Another one is what the physicists would call susceptibility, meaning you push the system in one direction—you give a little kick to it—and it starts running in that direction. You kick it the other way and it starts running in the other direction. The system is actually extraordinarily sensitive to very small perturbative events. One blog post can change the world. We've seen this more than once. One 4chan greentext will change the world. That kind of hypersensitivity suggests to me that we're in a period of great instability where we don't quite know what's coming out the other side.



 

"Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology." Complexity Podcast Ep. 72 (2021).

Full episode: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/72-kkxpnFGT?t=1h6m9s

 See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/america-civil-war-prophecies/620850/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/america-civil-war-prophecies/620850/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/america-civil-war-prophecies/620850/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/america-civil-war-prophecies/620850/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


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