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zos_kia | 17 days ago

I think that's actually an interesting feature of society as a macro system. It is very fault tolerant, which is frustrating for any power user but without which the system as a whole would not function at all.

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eviks|16 days ago

Or without which the system would function much better because all poorly functioning systems would fail, forcing designers to focus on fixing the faults

zos_kia|16 days ago

I think of it as a plane that cannot land. Allow it to fail in flight and you won't have a plane to fix or designers to fix it.