{"id":24349,"date":"2011-12-08T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/there-is-no-100-safe-system.html"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:43:21","slug":"there-is-no-100-safe-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/there-is-no-100-safe-system.html","title":{"rendered":"There Is No 100% Safe System"},"content":{"rendered":"

That seems to be the conclusion in the (fascinating) article below, and it makes frightening sense. The reasons being:<\/p>\n

1. We can identify and ameliorate a lot of single-point failures, but in doing so we make systems more complex and more prone to multi-point failures.<\/p>\n

2. Pilots are human. Humans make mistakes, including assumptions about what failures are and aren't possible, to the point of, under stress, ignoring warnings about failures that they know<\/i> are not possible.<\/p>\n

3. The world's a complicated place.<\/p>\n

Where this gets interesting is when you start talking about very dangerous technologies, where you can minimize the likelihood of a catastrophe, but where the cost of a catastrophe would be huge. Nuclear plants are an obvious example. Lots we can do to make them extremely safe. But … #ddtb<\/p>\n

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That seems to be the conclusion in the (fascinating) article below, and it makes frightening sense. The reasons being: 1. We can identify and ameliorate a lot of single-point failures, but in doing so we make systems more complex and more prone to multi-point failures. 2. Pilots are human. 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