@marsiposa That is one example that kind of fits, yes.

The actual space I'm looking at at the moment though is physical climate-related financial risk disclosures. Thinking about how the results of risk assessments are not truly verifiable (even in the future they are only really verifiable at the economic scale, not for individual businesses).

I think that this means there is the possibility that the norms of the industry (a system made up of businesses, investors, risk assessors, regulators, etc. etc.) might drift such that the standard/"best practice" approaches become less and less representative of the true underlying risk profiles, because they are not strongly tethered by a responsive feedback loop of error detection and correction.

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Complexity often exists
to protect simple truths
from being noticed.

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This is not motivation.
This is not news.
This is pattern recognition.

The Cipher Collective exists to decode systems—
power, technology, culture, and leverage.

If you’re here, you already know:
noise is cheap.
understanding is not.

Welcome to the signal.

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Does anyone know if there's a term for a complex adaptive system going off the rails due to internal dynamics? YouTube rabbit-hole style? Where "on the rails" might mean "the intended state" in a social system, or it might mean "sustainable" in an ecological system.

#complexity #complexAdaptiveSystems #comlexityScience #systemsThinking

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on #X and #bluesky i wrote very lengthy threads about #systemsdynamics, i am not gonna do that anymore.

if you want to get a clue on the lowest, most basic level of this stuff, no matter if you are just a recreational systems thinker or an whole ass applied #systemsengineer (maybe especially then), you should read meadows primer on how this stuff _actually_ works.

#systemsthinking #sytemsdynamics #complexsystems

why should you give a fuck about this niche ass, inaccessible sophistry?

because that is the way to go on about understanding phenomena in #complexsystems. it is by far not the only way to think about it, systems science is wast and diverse. but it is a good start to wrap your head around things like #overshoot and hysteresis, things happening in the complex world around us which are hard to grasp and often get misunderstood. it is #complexity literacy.

#systemsthinking #sytemsdynamics

delays are time gaps between an action and its observed effect within the system. they occur bc information, material or energy takes time to move through stocks and feedback loops. delays are not separate components to a system. the are properties of stocks and feedbacks. in a hydraulic system a delay might be the time it takes for a tank to fill before it overflows or triggers some other sort of response like opening a valve.

delays are also the reason why systems oscillate or get caught in endless loops of event & reaction. which is why they are sort of a headache to every system.

#systemsthinking #systemsdynamics

feedbacks are the circular connections within a system, changes in stocks or flows that influence each other and ultimately themselves. feedbacks occur when an output of the system is routed back as an input, shaping future behavior. they do not add or remove any material and instead adjust flows. feedbacks are the reason why systems stabilize, oscillate, or escalate out of control.

#systemsthinking #systemsdynamics

flows are processes that increase or decrease these stocks. they describe how fast a quantity moves into or out of a stock over time. in a hydraulic system, flows are pipes, faucets, drains, leaks that determine how fluid enters or leaves a container.

#systemsthinking #systemsdynamics

stocks are any components of the system that can hold a certain measurable quantity. in a hydraulic system stocks are any containers of fluid, like your bathtub or kitchen sink, or like a decapitator in an electrical circuit. stocks can increase and decline, they can overflow and they always represent a delay in a stock-and-flow system. when you plot the content of each stock of interest over time you get a graph of the system's behavior over time.

#systemsthinking #systemsdynamics

#systemsthinking 101

#systemsdynamics proposed that every possible issue can best be understood by envisioning it as an interconnected whole consisting of

- stocks
- flows
- feedbacks
and delays.

When sex work is criminalised, it doesn’t disappear — it moves.

This post looks at how punishment increases vulnerability, shifts harm out of sight, and quietly raises costs elsewhere when policy focuses on morality rather than safety.

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #SystemsThinking

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you know this is the reason why i am so disappointed in the like "deep green" #systems branch of my ex-#environmental community, i was sure that they somehow make at least the effort to envision the convergence of tumpism and all those other predicaments and most of them - they just can't do it. from voting for harris no matter how embarrassing it may be for an environmentalist to this very moment they just can't do it.

#systemsthinking #environment #energy #limitstogrowth

heinberg however was right. by omitting and postponing the existential question of wealth and resource distribution and consumption and the limits to such accumulation liberal societies have now created their own worst nightmare.

"grab the oil", right? he knows nothing about oil. it is a power play around a finite resource.

#USpol #systemsthinking

RE: https://discuss.systems/@kali/115920260116662292

to all who which understand me: if we can do anything - when #trump is gone - let there be no back to normal.

#climatechange #systemsthinking #environmentalism

and disclaimer: #doomers will say: isn't it good then when trumps breaks down the #complexity. to those i can only say: you have no fucking idea what that might all cause. complexity, a rich network of feedbacks is also what makes systems adaptable. real smart people say it is what makes life. #trump is breaking that down, also. we might live in a simpler world bc of #trump, yeah. but it will still be a world on the brink. that has not changed from a #climatechange perspective, #limitstogrowth perspective, #peakoil perspective - you name it. we might be a lot less capable of doing anything about it.

#USpol #systemsthinking

the phrase that "all is connected" is not a fortune cookie platitude #systems people repeat like a mantra in order to sound smart. it is an adequate description of the world we have created. it is how complex systems function. that is this "world order".

it always came at a cost. maintaining complexity requires energy, which is fossil energy, in our case.

#systemsthinking #energy #climatechange #trump #uspol #resources #power

you know, all this end-of-world-order - talk, as an #environmentalist it is just like: oh yeah here we go again - end of the world, who would have thought.

the writing has been on the wall on that one for a while now for this #system for everyone to see. don't pretend you do not know what it says about #imperialist, #industrial #capitalism and its #sustainability

#trump is just one facette of what has been going on for 200 years now.

#USpol #climatechange #greenland #systemsthinking