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Keep in mind intervening in a system requires some kind of theory, some kind of model where the positive effects will definitely be better than the side effects - and given how little we know and how bad we are at prediction, this will probably be wrong. A great way to start is removing things, kind of like a negative intervention, and so probably good (e.g: you're unlikely to find a medicine as helpful as smoking is harmful, so focus on stopping smoking). Easy to replace systems get replaced by difficult to replace systems. Sometimes is better to have fewer points of small disruptive change, but make a larger one much more meaningful.
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[A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law>)(more [elementary systems functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Elementary_systems_functions)). [Systems want to grow and grow](https://stephango.com/remove), but without pruning, they collapse. A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance.
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[A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law)(more [elementary systems functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Elementary_systems_functions)). [Systems want to grow and grow](https://stephango.com/remove), but without pruning, they collapse. A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance.
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Complex systems usually have [attractor landscapes](https://ncase.me/attractors/) that can be used to change it. [The world is richer and more complicated than we give it credit for](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/).
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Complex systems usually have [attractor landscapes](https://ncase.me/attractors/) that can be used to change it. [The world is richer and more complicated than we give it credit for](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/). To simplify it, we can focus on elements at different scales that have scale decoupling (quantum mechanics is decoupled from philosophy).
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Evolution is easier than revolution. A good approach to incrementally change a system (similar to [[Evolution|natural selection]]) is to:
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