Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear po...Show More
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epekilis recommended:Sep 3rd, 2020
I think it’s an oversimplification to say that engineers “ignore” the fact that complexity compounds the risk of system failure. Engineers understand this perfectly well, but have to work within real life constraints that prevent them from achieving utopian simple and elegant solutions to complex p...Show More
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