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Understanding Complex Systems Can Save You a Lot of Grief
In trying to make it safer by roping themselves together, they made it worse. If they had gone individually, only one guy would have fallen and machines are like that too. We take things like nuclear power plants, and we put a safety valve on that's going to shut it off if something goes wrong. It turns out it shuts off the one section that's cooling the thing, and the whole thing melts down. And so understanding complex systemsn and understanding how they don't work the way you expect normal things to work can save you a lot of grief....