[FRIAM] Shift happens

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Phil Henshaw wrote:
>> Learning in an endless classroom where the teacher
>> give out % increases in homework every day, however, tends to 
>> eventually destabilize.
>>   
>>     
> Teacher gonna grade it all?
>   
> nature has a real easy method of grading...
>   
Badly engineered things break, and unsustainable behaviors fail, species 
die, etc.
Nature can have hard constraints and in some sense an absolute grading 
scale.  On the interfaces of social systems, though, there is no choice 
but to grade on a curve (e.g. the job market is only as good as the 
people in it).