total lack of knowledge about relevant social science. why?: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/science/3-body-problem-nuclear-china.html?smid=url-share
What the 3 Body Problem Means for Nuclear War

Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they warn, could lead to not only global races for new armaments but also thermonuclear war.

The New York Times
@emilyerikson there has never been a classical social theorist who said anything of importance about the phase transition of the dyad to the triad. Glad Strogatz is on the case