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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is easy, simple, and wrong. And then there's the Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety (not sure it's a law), wh
by splitrocket 2y ago
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is easy, simple, and wrong.
And then there's the Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety (not sure it's a law), which states, simplified, that a simpler system cannot control a more complicated system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)
- svieira 2y agoAnd the corollary to that called the "Principle of Subsidiarity" which states (paraphrasing) that "Responsibilities must be minimally delegated upwards"