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What are the limits? What have we run up against that we couldn't understand, no matter how much we tried?


Almost anything outside physics is not predictable. Anything that involves human behavior is totally not understood, especially if it involves a bunch of humans (economy, sociology...). You could describe it, sure, but that is not the same as understating and modifying at will.




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