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Posted by shortcrct 7 hours ago

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)(how.complexsystems.fail)
180 points | 50 commentspage 2
throwaway231013 3 hours ago|
Highly recommend "The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dörner (1997)
nemesis17 4 hours ago||
Worth reading Leveson’s works on safety engineering.
yipinwong 5 hours ago||
I think there are a few common themes to the failure reasons, but cannot get my hands on it.

This seems like a list of reasons while I am looking for more abstract directions on how to prevent them.

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I am trying not to use AIs to just do that for me to tinkle my neurons.

shash 5 hours ago|
I think, part of the point is that it’s not possible to have a recipe to prevent failures. They are cascades of many events coming together to fail in an a priori non obvious way.

Or so I read the [site? article?]

mohamedkoubaa 5 hours ago||
I can't tell if the article is describing how complex systems fail or if they are using failure characteristics to define complex systems.
shash 5 hours ago|
It’s more about failure. It’s right there on top.
icantevenhold 4 hours ago||
One of the great documents of our civilisation
hn974izqdv 3 hours ago||
Good take, no notes
haemdahl 5 hours ago||
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evidaxis 4 hours ago||
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