Lorin Hochstein on Nostr: In a complex system, there isn’t a “safety” knob that you can just turn to the ...
In a complex system, there isn’t a “safety” knob that you can just turn to the right to increase safety. Safety features increase complexity (new failure modes!) and have opportunity costs (finite resources!). Every intervention involves a tradeoff.
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