This somehow reminds me of an interesting tidbit in an old paper about the architecture of natural multi-agent systems such as ant colonies. Basically the resilience and reliability of the overall system is a result of agents not being "afraid" to fail. When ants look out for food, there is a chance a number of ants gets lost and starves; on the other hand, when a single ant finds a food source, the whole colony benefits from it. [1] Some VC firms operate in a similar way, if you think about it.

[1]: Parunak, H. Van Dyke. "Go to the ant": Engineering principles from natural multi-agent systems. Annals of Operations Research 75 (1997): 69-101.