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La La Land: Galileo's Warning

2019/11/22
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Tim Harford: 本期节目以奥斯卡颁奖错误事件为引子,探讨了系统复杂性与安全系统设计之间的关系。通过分析奥斯卡颁奖事件、三里岛核事故和2008年金融危机,指出旨在避免灾难的安全措施有时反而会增加风险,这体现了伽利略原理。文章还介绍了社会学家Charles Perrault的"正常事故理论",解释了复杂性和紧密耦合的系统更容易发生灾难性事故的原因。 Charles Perrault: (观点间接体现) 人们总是倾向于责备操作人员,而忽略了系统设计缺陷才是导致事故的主要原因。复杂且紧密耦合的系统更容易发生意外。 Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Brian Cullinan, Martha Ruiz: (观点间接体现) 奥斯卡颁奖事件中,演员和会计人员的错误操作是事件发生的直接原因,但根本原因在于系统设计缺陷。 Tim Geithner, Robert Willemstad: (观点间接体现) 2008年金融危机中,旨在降低风险的金融衍生品反而加剧了金融危机的风险,体现了伽利略原理。

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The Oscars 2017 Best Picture award was mistakenly given to 'La La Land' instead of 'Moonlight' due to a series of human errors and system flaws, including the handing over of the wrong envelope by an accountant.

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Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear power plants, financial markets and at the Oscars... all resulting in chaos.

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