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Seeing Like a Finite State Machine — Crooked Timber

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Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having read Maciej’s and Kieran…

Seeing Like a Finite State Machine — Crooked Timber Home Comments policy Subscribe Seeing Like a Finite State Machine by Henry Farrell on November 25, 2019 Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having read Maciej’s and Kieran’s previous work as well as talking lots to Marion Fourcade). The conjecture (and it is no more than a plausible conjecture) is simple, but it straightforwardly contradicts the collective wisdom that is emerging in Washington DC, and o

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