What's most striking to me in this article is how perfectly this sums up the ongoing collapse of America's political system and civil society:
"In the paper Basic Patterns in How Adaptive Systems Fail, the researchers David Woods and Matthieu Branlat note that brittle systems tend to suffer from the following three patterns:
- Decompensation: exhausting capacity to adapt as challenges cascade
- Working at cross-purposes: behavior that is locally adaptive but globally maladaptive
- Getting stuck in outdated behaviors: the world changes but the system remains stuck in what were previously adaptive strategies (over-relying on past successes)"
"In the paper Basic Patterns in How Adaptive Systems Fail, the researchers David Woods and Matthieu Branlat note that brittle systems tend to suffer from the following three patterns:
- Decompensation: exhausting capacity to adapt as challenges cascade
- Working at cross-purposes: behavior that is locally adaptive but globally maladaptive
- Getting stuck in outdated behaviors: the world changes but the system remains stuck in what were previously adaptive strategies (over-relying on past successes)"
Painfully apt.