Comment by loloquwowndueo
4 years ago
Why complex social systems collapse faster - the article doesn’t talk about general complexity but the kind found in social structures.
It also suggests a kind of simplistic mathematical analysis which doesn’t sound super insightful or accurate. Otherwise, Asimov’s psychohistory could already be a thing, if it was possible to mathematically model with accuracy the behaviour of societies.
Asimov did say in the books that it depended on having a much larger population on lots of planets, so random events averaged out.
We wouldn't know if it was a thing.