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.
@tivasyk should work for human body as well, yes.
I think, that's a reason to study complex system theory (even at an amateur level). Studying systems is kinda like studying category theory but in life.
#quote | «Optimizations require increasing *reliability*, but as you optimize, you — by definition — reduce the error margins. The less margins you have the less resilience — by definition — you can have»
somehow, i just thought about human body rather than car racing…
@jonn