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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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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I think of relying on AWS like the 2008 financial crisis. Place so many eggs in one basket that no one can blame you individually when it all goes to hell.
End of conversation
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It’s like Notre Dame Cathedral vs. the Ise Shrine, the latter of which is destroyed and rebuilt every 20 years
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As long as we live in a system that optimizes resource allocation and allows for externalizing the cost of risk, good luck with that approach. Fragility is a feature that generates fortunes. (Not endorsing it, just shaking my head resignedly)
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