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This problem comes up a lot in my conversations with folks IRL. Everything is JIT to JIT. So fragile. It's almost like there is an underlying principle between

• andrewflnr 5y ago
  The best phrasing I've heard is something like this: the more closely adapted a system is to one environment, the less adapted it can be to other environments. So by being very closely adapted to the steady state environment, it cannot be adapted to disrupted environments.
  • TrispusAttucks 5y ago
    Thank you. This is some great insight. I remnds me that humans are a generalist species but as we further create a specialist environment we inherit the [1] instability in specialization. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_sp...