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 This is no cause for alarm and nor is it new. It is is a reminder to of the importance in contingency, provisionality, and above all humility.
-All of these are another way of attacking a familiar problem: the world is complex, not merely complicated. Complication is a function of a paradigm. It is part of the game. It is within the rules. Complexity, by contrast, describes the limits of the paradigm. Complexity is the the wilderness beyond the rules of the game. Complexity is is the noise, not the signal. In a complex environment the rules do not work.
+All of these are another way of attacking a familiar problem: the world is complex, not merely [[complicated]]. [[Complication]] is a function of a [[paradigm]]. It is part of the game. It is within the rules. It is soluble, by sufficiently skilled application of the rules. Complication can be beaten by algorithm.
+[[Complexity]] cannot.
+Complexity, by contrast, describes the ''limits'' of the [[paradigm]]. [[Complexity]] is the the wilderness beyond the rules of the game. [[Complexity]] is is the noise, not the signal. In a complex environment the rules do not work.