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What's the Lyapunov exponent of human history? How would one go about defining and measuring it?

>> No.9757778

By running hundreds of thousands of ancestor simulations on an unfeasibly large computer.

>> No.9757816

>>9757641
>What's the Lyapunov exponent
A factor that describes the trajectory of a dynamical system.
>What's the Lyapunov exponent of human history
Nonsense

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>>9757816
>human history is not a dynamical system

>> No.9757941

>>9757924
It's not.

>> No.9757988

>>9757941
what is it then?

>> No.9758542

>>9757988
a mistake

>> No.9758575

>>9757941
You lack creativity.

>> No.9758584

>>9757641
>the Lyapunov exponent
is this a free will question?

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>> No.9758600

>>9758584
No? Lyapunov exponents only make sense for deterministic systems.

>> No.9758609

>>9758600
well this was my thought, that you are asking how much deviation there was from what could be predicted?

historically, i guess some things could be predicted with hindsight. but there a lots of chaotic events in human history. i guess you could do an analysis but that would take a long time and the values you assign would be subjective anyway