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by cairnechou 207 days ago
"Armchair quarterbacking" is spot on.

The author asks for a deep, system-theoretic analysis... immediately after the incident. That's just not how reality works.

When the house is on fire, you put it out and write a quick "the wiring was bad" report so everyone calms down. You don't write a PhD thesis on electrical engineering standards within 24 hours. The deep feedback-loop analysis happens weeks later, usually internally.

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> The deep feedback-loop analysis

Thinking the consideration of feedback loops requires "deep" analysis is, I suspect, part of the problem! The insufficient feedback shows up at a very shallow level.