The only complex system you should trust is one that breaks all the time, at all scales, and where those breakdowns are routine and the mitigation for it well developed. Never put your data on a server with ten years of uptime
-
-
Show this thread
-
The human response to any functioning complex system is to pile on additional complexity until it breaks catastrophically. So a steady rate of breakdowns, big and small, is the only reassurance that you aren't piling up massive levels of risk somewhere
Show this thread -
None of these thoughts original (see
@nntaleb) but it's frustrating to watch stuff get turned into a morality play about overreliance on fragile networks, rather than about how to reduce that fragility while continuing to rely on them just fineShow this thread -
How are we expecting to live in a world with massive climate change if blocking one canal is enough to give the global economy a stroke? We need to develop a transportation system of all-weather, all-terrain giant mechas
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
I'm glad our pilots have a no-fault reporting system for the planes that almost crashed
End of conversation
-
-
-
The Chaos Monkey approach. Good for a plot twist in comic-book style movies as well.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
If only we had a much more wide, indestructible, perhaps somewhat longer backup to the Suez.
-
They already twinned some of the canal, for a fraction of the losses this week they could have finished it
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
NYT is really on a roll this weekend...https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1376189485679996934?s=21 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.