Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
by salawat on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:17AM
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This is why corporations need to remain small.
The inefficiencies are what make the system A)navigable, and B) work.
When you have humans trying to run something that no human can fully mentally represent without significant investment in external memory aids, you have a recipe for disaster, because one bad move by a large actor propagates far better than the same move by a smaller actor.
Real life analogy:
Your kid trips.<-Less severe
YOU TRIP.<-More severe
The inefficiencies are what make the system A)navigable, and B) work.
When you have humans trying to run something that no human can fully mentally represent without significant investment in external memory aids, you have a recipe for disaster, because one bad move by a large actor propagates far better than the same move by a smaller actor.
Real life analogy: Your kid trips.<-Less severe YOU TRIP.<-More severe
Hyperbolic analogy: Jack trips Giant trips
Which has worse consequences?