thomas

We misread the current zeitgeist as the good old sociopolitical pendulum swinging back from left to right.

In reality, the pendulum grew a second arm, and is now exhibiting classic chaotic behavior.

Dibs on the name “nonlinear politics”.

We misread the current zeitgeist as the good old sociopolitical pendulum swinging back from left to right.

In reality, the pendulum grew a second arm, and is now exhibiting classic chaotic behavior.

Dibs on the name “nonlinear politics”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

Interesting — I wasn’t aware of the McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem. The way it’s described sounds very similar to turbulent flow in dynamical systems, e.g. Navier-Stokes applied to fluid convection etc. The majority rule can be unstable and lead to unpredictable, aperiodic outcomes (which is characteristic of nonlinearity)

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Interesting — I wasn’t aware of the McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem. The way it’s described sounds very similar to turbulent flow in dynamical systems, e.g. Navier-Stokes applied to fluid convection etc. The majority rule can be unstable and lead to unpredictable, aperiodic outcomes (which is characteristic of nonlinearity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKelvey%E2%80%93Schofield_chaos_theorem

Related: https://bsky.app/profile/bendeebendee.bsky.social/post/3lcdnqmgwdc27

Chaotic systems, feedback loops, and bifurcation points. We’re not swinging, we’re spiraling

three-body problem too, not quite right except for the chaos part