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		jstummbillig on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other p... This criticism is unspecific to the idea of "everything is a system". You are criticising models for being a models. Sure enough, models are problematic for various reasons, a few of which you have enlisted. It's just an entirely different conversation to have.

jmiskovic on Jan 15, 2020 [–]

I'm arguing for "most things can in most cases be considered through lens of simpler system" instead. "Everything is a system" to me implies that every phenomenon maps to exactly one comprehensible system, which is far too strong statement to make.

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