danlowlite comments on The Hidden Complexity of Wishes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: danlowlite 15 February 2011 03:04:21PM *  1 point [-]

Material sciences can give us an estimate on the shattering of a given material given certain criteria.

Just because you do not know specific things about it doesn't make it a black box. Of course, that doesn't make the problems with complex systems disappear, it just exposes our ignorance. Which is not a new point here.