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12 November 2022

On reselience and fragility.

I've been pondering about the optimised systems (in business, in mechanics, in general, from system theoretic standpoint).

Optimisations require increasing reliability, but as you optimise, you -- by definition -- reduce the error margins. The less margins you have the less reselience -- by definition -- you can have.

It may sound obvious, but it has interesting implications.

For example, the system of business (such as a racing league like #WRC or #F1) where businesses compete in optimisations, will transitively be fragile!

For instance, business that runs away with a particularly successful optimisation will then destroy the system together with the competition (like #Toyota did in mdoern rally). A manual intervention will be required.

Not sure if it makes sense to people who aren't into rally, but I think that the three concepts: optimisation, reselience and reliability are very interesting to consider.

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