It's not just quantum uncertainty, but also systems effects/mathematics. Both chaotic systems and complex adaptive systems are 'sensitive to initial conditions', making them unpredictable as a whole. (View Post)

Anyone watching Foundation? If so, do you care how much it is already diverging from the books? (View Post)

Great quote from a GOP operative, who presumably is not a Trump fan: Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers, who hails from Alabama. “Politics is about addition, and vengeance is not consistent with addition.” (View Post)

@Kinabalu Your musings on your hole in one are basically the fundamentals of Normal Accident Theory, that came out of the Three Mile Island accident. Given their sensitivity to initial conditions, co… (View Post)

Re Jezza, he'll probably come up with some doublespeak that China's invasion was just spreading the peace. (View Post)