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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Jun 2017
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    If you apply the "ask why 5 times" root-cause-analysis heuristic to "why is centralization bad?" what answer do you end up with?

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      2. Hal Morris‏ @HalMorris3 11 Jun 2017
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        Centralization of what? IMO putting the sun in the center of the solar system was a very good idea. There are probablly other examples.

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      3. Russell Collins‏ @VancouverRuss 11 Jun 2017
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        Sun at the centre but bottom up not top down. The sun gives it doesn't take.

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      1. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 10 Jun 2017
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        Centralization -> fewer points of failure -> failures become more catastrophic -> more regulation -> creativity discouraged -> stagnation.

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      2.  🐜 🐻‏ @ultimape 11 Jun 2017
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        I ended up with "because swarm level risk processing doesn't work if the system stays in stasis mode" and realized question should be "when"

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      3.  🐜 🐻‏ @ultimape 11 Jun 2017
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         🐜 🐻 Retweeted Naval

        oh hey:https://twitter.com/naval/status/873559651685588996 …

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        Naval @naval
        Nature's fractals result from self interested, bottoms-up coordination vs centralized, top-down control. https://twitter.com/prasanna/status/873549938239524864 …
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      1. AJ‏ @cavepainting 10 Jun 2017
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        because human nature is to exploit when it has control and leverage.

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      2. David Aron Levine‏ @davealevine 10 Jun 2017
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        Risk.

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      3. Billion Dollar Grift Card  🍞 🌹 🏡 🏥‏ @pastinaco 10 Jun 2017
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        Replying to @davealevine @vgr

        "Centralization is bad" isn't a specific failure mode, so not really right for "x times why" post-mortem. But yeah "risk" is a good summary.

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      2. mtraven‏ @mtraven 11 Jun 2017
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        Only got 3 levels in: 1/ Why is centralization bad? Because concentrations of power lead to abuse

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      3. mtraven‏ @mtraven 11 Jun 2017
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        2/ Why do concentration of power lead to abuse? Abuse of power is a given, the only thing that can check it is other rival powers

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