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by akomtu 1718 days ago
Models need input and there isn't much knowable input in modern organisations. A unit of organisation is a person with complex internal state. Two units of type M could've competed for another unit of type F and one of them has won, while the other is secretly sabotaging work of the first - an example of chaotic to an outsider behavior because of hidden state. When all sorts of interactions are allowed, particles of organisation interact in all sorts of bizarre ways. It's hard to model a gas where particles have memory, long distance interactions with ten types of forces, mutate into other particles, teleport back and forth according to God knows what reasons and so on. We either resort to making only very general predictions or we cool down the particles, restrict their freedom to bare minimum and make them predictable. Rogue regimes do exactly this: the only interaction they allow is a strictly top-down "who fears whom", so everything is local and predictable.