Moore’s law (the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years) was true for an impressive number of doubling, but infinite growth, apart from among madmen or economists, doesn’t compute.
Less’s law, unlike Moore’s, is a law: In a complex system, making changes has unintended outcomes that exceed those that modern metastatic humans intended, apart from as predicted by Li’s law (Li’s law — experts cannot be wrong all the time).
The basis for Less’s law is that complex systems, or even relatively simple systems, e.g. the Mpemba effect, are not only more complex than modern humans understand, but more than they can understand (or if some mutant humans understand the Mpemba effect, all other humans will rather believe than know).
Primates changing a complex system, e.g. any aspect of their socioeconomic-political-religious system they can’t understand, has unintended outcomes, and by chance most appear to do more harm than good (first law of human ecology). A corollary: those appearing to have the greatest short-term benefits have the greatest long term harm, e.g. industrially produced foods, money, civilization.
Moore’s law effectively ended in 2010 when it didn’t double in two years, but was only admitted to truly be dead in 2022. Another law I’ve proposed is that it takes 10 years for experts to agree that something has happened, e.g. peak oil.
In a recent example, in 2022 few strongly pro-abortion advocates were demanding that Roe v Wade be overturned.
Thanks to Roe v Wade and increased funding for Planned Parenthood et al., the need for abortions had gone down and then up a bit as becoming a parent became less popular (less compatible with spending 9 hours a day doing small screen time).
But if you wanted to see the number of abortions rapidly decrease to zero, you likely celebrated the overruling of Roe v Wade. Three years later, they are likely not celebrating the opposite outcome — a significant increase in the number of abortions.
The experts had expected 28 states would make abortion illegal, but…
All experts who were deeply concerned about the drop in US fertility rates expected fewer abortions and more births as birth control (Planned Parenthood defunded) lacked off. Oh, but less birth control, more pregnancies, more demand for abortion…
Let’s pass a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution, aka Baby Rights: No one not intending to be a parent can have gametic contact with mandatory paternity testing and obilagate progeny support enforceable by indentured servitude or execution. What could go wrong with that?