This is a good point, and I would add to it that the internet as a system is robust *because* the protocols are ancient and crufty and not too reliable. Ancient is antifragile! Real systemic risk lurks in the cloud—a complex system of cruft that is designed to never, ever fail.https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1445267690466185216 …
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At the same time, people will treat any platform that demonstrates 99.9999% reliability as having 100% reliability, recursively in layer after layer, laying the seeds for cascading disaster when probability catches up with them. Think about the 2008 bank crisis as an example.
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People saying the internet is a hairball held together with bubble gum and duct tape are paying it a huge compliment. Here and there inside the hairball is a delicately engineered Swiss watch, and those are the parts we need to get rid of.
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Anyway this is all just the tech port of a standard-issue
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If you've seen a video of the Milk Crate Challenge, then you understand how the layered architecture of modern hardware, software, and the internet all works.
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Airline Disasters is basically the story of this. 1950 -> We sent two planes to look at the Grand Canyon and they hit eachother 2016 - Pilot suicides and 737 Max stuff.
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and note that air safety is implemented as a series of layers, fallbacks, failsafes -- individual failures are never particularly uncommon, but any individual failure (or any combination of three) can be responded to and survived
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Entropy?
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