Everyone's going on about how serious incidents (like Suez or the Texas blackouts) show that we're too reliant on complex systems. But these incidents are also the only way to build resilience in such systems. We need more of them, at far lower severityhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/ship-suez-canal.html …
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@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
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@MoshabelaMosa I reckon this thread might resonate -
So true... it's like giving the one efficient person more work to do until they break down... instead of bringing in more efficient people.
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Are you saying that we should double-down on the human response to make complex systems more complex so it will consistently fail, but to also develop systems of mitigation that are ready for these consistent failures?
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