It’s the basic obstacle of artificial ecosystems. In a normal evolutionary environment, there’s enough diversity to cushion the system when something catastrophic happens. That’s nature. Catastrophic things happen all the time. But nothing we can build has the depth. One thing goes wrong, and there’s only a few compensatory pathways that can step in. They get overstressed. Fall out of balance. When the next one fails, there are even fewer paths.
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Politics moves slow because the stakes are very high, and no one wants to be the person that screwed it up.
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She’s got a fine daddy, Doc. You give a shit, and that’s more than a lot of people ever do.
