this is interesting- especially the ecosystem comparison
there's a point where complex adaptive systems are responsive enough to what you do that it makes sense to treat them as an adversary
I guess this is why things like Boyd's OODA are useful in lots of places
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RT @0xdoug
1/ Zillow made the same mistake that every new quant trader makes early on: Mistaking an adversarial environment for a random one. https://twitter.com/macrocephalo…
https://twitter.com/0xdoug/status/1456032851477028870
Luttwak's "paradoxical logic" is similar, and other concepts from military strategy
strategy is something I found really interesting when I was younger, and then drifted away for a while, basically because most references it outside academia or actual war are cringe
underneath all the terrible sun tzu references and navy seal comparisons, though, there is probably something to be said for thinking about "what if this system were actively trying to foil me" and the (very old) folk wisdom we have for dealing with that
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RT @meanderingexile
In general, I guess this is why I find military strategy a useful discipline for people interested in decision making and complex sociotechnical systems.
https://twitter.com/meanderingexile/status/1357658649481543680
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RT @meanderingexile
This paraphrasing of Soros' reflexivity principle from https://allenfarrington.medium.com/the-complex-markets-hypothesis-44c2b2b191d2 is probably the clearest statement of it I've come across.
https://twitter.com/meanderingexile/status/1357652482659295232