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Any sufficiently complex system operates constantly in failure mode

• uoaei 3y ago
  This is an incomplete view of complex systems. It is more accurate to say they operate constantly in recovery mode.
• bmacho 3y ago
  > The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): complex systems usually operate in a failure mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics now this is depressing. I hate everything and I live in a constant 'everything is shit' state of mind, but this book hates things way more than me.
• simonh 3y ago
  Which of course also applies to human cognitive processes. We’ve had millions of years of evolution to prune out problems, but in many cases the problems were papered over by a kludge that introduced other problems, which were then kludged, etc. No wonder the complex systems we build are such a mess. They’re a reflection of ourselves.
  • taneq 3y ago
    They’re not yet a reflection of ourselves, only of our thought processes. They’re flawed, as are we, but we’ve been ruthlessly battle-tested in the only arena that matters.