A presumption may guide inquiry, but it cannot prevail against proof; it may facilitate administration, but it cannot extinguish reality; it may stand in the absence of knowledge, but it must yield in the presence of truth."
Very cool, Martin, you did a great and clear job. I'm sure the people in your audience were both entertained and educated. I certainly was!
I have been on your case for a while for not incorporating malice, so I was heartened to see your graphic "The Map of Institutional Failure" now has an explicit acknowledgement of malice. Yes, you labeled it "Opportunistic" which is usually accurate. I've seen enough corruption here in the States to know that evil actors aren't just opportunists. You have only to look at the NGO network created by Soros, the Democrats, and the RINOs to know that malice can set about putting in place an entire hidden system by deliberately inserting legislation and processes specifically designed to allow massive evil, fraud, theft, trafficking, blackmail, and probably even murder.
Like you, I don't have a good feel for techniques that can reliably distinguish between a failure of a system due to load, or a system being deliberately pushed into failure for opportunistic reasons by malicious actors, or a system designed from the ground up to hide, take, or otherwise gain power and wealth at others' expense. I suspect that the best way to get at it is military system analysis of networks that need to be hardened against hostile action, modified for civil and criminal patterns. Now with AI's pattern-matching capacities, it should be more possible to diagnose in real time or after the fact at which level a specific system is actually operating.
Further, if we back up into just the continuity failure mode, it would seem that your analysis could start to identify the "code" that needs to be written or the type of system that needs to be created to make backwards attribution much cheaper and more reliable (like perhaps a blockchain-based tracking and registration system).
Now that you have such an elegant and explainable core analysis, practical applications should be possible to generate and apply. Call your business "Geddes Administrative Gastronomy" or GAG for short (tagline: "We get right into the guts of your institution!"). Worldly success awaits you! :-)
A presumption may guide inquiry, but it cannot prevail against proof; it may facilitate administration, but it cannot extinguish reality; it may stand in the absence of knowledge, but it must yield in the presence of truth."
Very cool, Martin, you did a great and clear job. I'm sure the people in your audience were both entertained and educated. I certainly was!
I have been on your case for a while for not incorporating malice, so I was heartened to see your graphic "The Map of Institutional Failure" now has an explicit acknowledgement of malice. Yes, you labeled it "Opportunistic" which is usually accurate. I've seen enough corruption here in the States to know that evil actors aren't just opportunists. You have only to look at the NGO network created by Soros, the Democrats, and the RINOs to know that malice can set about putting in place an entire hidden system by deliberately inserting legislation and processes specifically designed to allow massive evil, fraud, theft, trafficking, blackmail, and probably even murder.
Like you, I don't have a good feel for techniques that can reliably distinguish between a failure of a system due to load, or a system being deliberately pushed into failure for opportunistic reasons by malicious actors, or a system designed from the ground up to hide, take, or otherwise gain power and wealth at others' expense. I suspect that the best way to get at it is military system analysis of networks that need to be hardened against hostile action, modified for civil and criminal patterns. Now with AI's pattern-matching capacities, it should be more possible to diagnose in real time or after the fact at which level a specific system is actually operating.
Further, if we back up into just the continuity failure mode, it would seem that your analysis could start to identify the "code" that needs to be written or the type of system that needs to be created to make backwards attribution much cheaper and more reliable (like perhaps a blockchain-based tracking and registration system).
Now that you have such an elegant and explainable core analysis, practical applications should be possible to generate and apply. Call your business "Geddes Administrative Gastronomy" or GAG for short (tagline: "We get right into the guts of your institution!"). Worldly success awaits you! :-)
Brilliant.