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[olga_mw]

Here:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1116
some folks from UPenn are writing about them finding perpetuum mobile critical point for implementing the Hope and the Change.

I am somewhat sceptical about that since I saw no discussion about the risks and limitation of the model offered in their study. However, I'd like to know what you think about it since Obama's "scientists".... did not fire well with their Hope and Change model.

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[malobukov]

Nassim Taleb writes about effectiveness of vocal minority in "Skin in the Game". The exact number can clearly be different, but any system with feedback loops is prone to having such tipping points.

Re: This is neither new nor controversial

[olga_mw]

That's precisely what I am curious about, the feedback loops. To my best bet, the vertices (Length) converge to zero effectively removing any feedback. I was wondering whether UPenn folks would address it, but it may be too ... politically incorrect.
The other interesting observation lays in time average. By looking at the past events we get that the revolution is eating its own om some sort of period T. Now, I have not see such strong convergence. I'd like to look at it and sort out cases (or rather case groups by the same property) but folks are silent on that as well. I wonder, why.