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> especially when existential risk is on the table for entities who lose a competition.

This really just explains externalities. Competition creates apparent short-range existential risk to a business. Real existential risk (to people or things damaged by your defective product because of "precarious perfection") land somewhere else - usually where their impact is much larger.

[advael]

If something is considered an externality by some system, decisions that prioritize it are by definition hard or impossible to make within that system. In other words, to change that, we have to rewrite systemic priorities to some degree

[nonrandomstring]

That's an interesting thought I'll give some chin stroking to. Sounds like something Kurt Godel and John Gall would have hatched together. Is it a personal insight, or from experience, or something you think might be attributable. cheers.

> we have to rewrite systemic priorities to some degree

maybe Forrester or Meadows has an insight?

[advael]

I mean I am sure I'm not the first person to have this insight - as I said I view it as baked into the definition of "externality" - but I'm also not pulling it from any specific source I can consciously recall