I love this frame of strong-link vs weak-link systems.
- I love this frame of strong-link vs weak-link systems.
- Most problems are weak-link problems.
- If a single component fails the whole thing doesn't work.
- This means all of the focus is on improving the weakest link.
- Some special problems are strong-link problems.
- Only the best link matters; everything else can be ignored.
- This is one of the characteristics of antifragile systems.
- Science, evolution, capitalism, etc.
- Strong-link systems are ones that have massive distributed computation, with memes, organisms, companies, products fighting it out, and the best rise to the top.
- A kind of emergent percolation sort.