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Complicated systems: Unlike simple systems, complicated systems need skilled management and some expertise to operate — a school leaver in Bucharest with plenty of coffee and a playbook on her lap probably isn’t the droid you’re looking for — but in the right hands can usually be managed without catastrophe, though the degree of success will be a function of the degree of expertise. You know you have a complicated system when it cleaves to a comprehensive set of axioms and rules, and thus it is a matter of making sure that the proper models are being used for the situation at hand. Chess and Alpha Go are complicated, but not complex, systems. You can “force-solve” them, at least in theory. They are entirely predictable, determinative and calculable, given enough processing power. They’re tame, not wicked problems.