[compumetrika]

Many great recommendations in the comments here about on emergent order in complex systems -- does anyone have recommendations for reading about how such systems de-organize?

[discarded1023]

Perhaps "Six Sources of Collapse" [1] may be what you're looking for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Hadlock

[actionfromafar]

One theory is, they eventually invent nukes and go at it.

[indy]

The Second Law of Thermodynamics