Reminder that any sufficiently optimized system is increasingly fragile, as safety margins appear like waste to optimization efforts. The Taiwanese earthquake already demonstrated this. ObSF: Pham Nuwen and the Qeng Ho understand this! Highly optimized societies are prone to catastrophic collapse.Reminder that any sufficiently optimized system is increasingly fragile, as safety margins appear like waste to optimization efforts. The Taiwanese earthquake already demonstrated this. ObSF: Pham Nuwen and the Qeng Ho understand this! Highly optimized societies are prone to catastrophic collapse.
This is why vital infrastructure must never be privatized. Vital infrastucture must be robust, and robustness requires redundancies, which board members see as a waste of money that could be better used for board member bonuses.