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Amazon: a case study on combatting bureaucratic drag
through separable, autonomous and focused sub-systems
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Ashwin Parameswaran
ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and Deskilling
why large language models (LLMs) will deskill the knowledge worker
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Redundancy, Degeneracy and Resilience
why degeneracy rather than redundancy is the key to preserving system resilience
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All systems must be efficient, robust and evolvable
How all complex systems can and must be efficient, robust and evolvable to thrive
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Civilisation is artificial
and this is a feature, not a bug.
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Why optimisation fails in complex systems
Why does a single-minded focus on one variable fail?
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More complex control cannot overcome Goodhart's Law: The Soviet experience
more metrics and more complex metrics don't solve the problem
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There are no magic bullets
All solutions come with tradeoffs
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Complex problems don't have final solutions
Almost every strategy works at first and eventually fails
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Metrics, codification and objectivity
The rise of objectivity and the decline of discretion and subjectivity
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Some thoughts on the collapse of SVB
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed because fair value losses on its held-to-maturity portfolio rendered it insolvent and susceptible to a bank run.
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Never retrofit an old system
The Soviet experience applied to the NHS
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