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Comment author: Jef_Allbright 19 October 2008 09:46:15PM 0 points [-]

odf23ds: "Ack. Could you please invent some terminology so you don't have to keep repeating this unwieldy phrase?"

I'm eager for an apt idiom for the concept, and one also for "increasing coherence over increasing context."

It seems significant, and indicative of our cultural unfamiliarity -- even discomfort -- with concepts of systems, information, and evolutionary theory, that we don't have such shorthand.

But then I look at the gross misunderestimation of almost every issue of any complexity at every level of supposed sophistication of social decision-making, and then geek speak seems not so bad.

Suggestions?