What if civilization but with triple redundancy?
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How we build nuclear power plants:
We need 1 pumo to cool the reactor, so we bult 4 pumps:
- one can be down for maintenance
- one can have a hidden fault that we won't notice until we try to use it
- one can break during operation
- and we still have one to cool the reactor
- and we also have gravity-powered Emergency Core Cooling System on top of that
How we build our economy:
Oh if they fail to deliver we can just sue them.
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@wolf480pl And sometimes we do plan for the failure to deliver (random examples: datacentres have redundant power supply usually). Do you want to say that we do that too rarely, or that we should do that always, or something else?
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@robryk I want to say that we do that too rarely, and that people running businesses too often look only at the money perspective and ignore the reliability perspective.
And instead of de-correlating failure, they correlate it when everyone outsources to the same provider.