Concave and convex problems are totally different.
- Concave and convex problems are totally different.
- Concave: as you solve subcomponents the whole trends towards being solved.
- Every bit of work brings you closer to the solution.
- Convex: as you solve subcomponents they have ripple effects that destabilize the other components.
- Every bit of work could bring you further away from the solution
- Complex problems are convex.[oo]
- Anything with a coordination cost, or interdependencies between decisions, have this characteristic.
- Any situation that involves humans making decisions with any degree of autonomy is fundamentally complex.
- The decision of one human affects the decision landscape of the other humans.
- We act like concave problems are more common, but that's only because they're the ones we know how to solve.
- Like the streetlight fallacy.
- The real world is primarily convex problems.