Fake bets on diversity look like effusive praise and superlatives of people who don’t appear to have done anything special to deserve it. Real bets on diversity look like pointless decentralization/distribution in projects where there’s an obvious, cheaper centralized approach.
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This takes serious architecture. It’s like map-reduce distributed programming to achieve a simple sort of a small list that could easily be done one a single computer with a one-line program. Except it’s not a simple sort with a mechanical formula to get to the one right answer.
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This is a problem with zillions of acceptable answers that fit the nominal solution constraints, and the size of the problem is within reach of 1-2 people. Getting to *a* answer or even *the best* answer in some sense is easy, and best done in the most centralized way possible.
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But the kinds of answers you get depend on how you set it up. Engineering diversity into a solution process generates types of solutions that don’t emerge with low diversity. And sometimes that’s what you want in a solution set. Even if it means giving up quality in other ways.
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Reminded me of a different problem. With computers, as one goes further up the ladder of abstraction (assembly → language → scripting → web stack), the tools become more useful but less efficient. Sometimes it makes sense to pay some efficiency for getting at some other goals.
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We can afford a bit of stakeholder conflict resolution hell. We can afford a lot of it. It's a sensible purchase, because there's not much else to do in the world of caloric surplus and economies of scale.
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