[MichaelZuo]

The real truth is that all 8 billion+ people plus all the world's organizations, governments, and so on, are constantly interpenetrating and co-modifying each other, every second of the day.

But no one can comprehend this, so at best, if you are literally the smartest person in the world, you might be able to get away with only a few hundred simplifying abstractions.

The average HN user probably needs tens of thousands.

So its not just states, it's everyone and everything that will ever exist.

The real question is what is the best bundle of such aids to use, at any given time?