13 September 2003 - optimization
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Computers teach us that standardization wins over optimization;
the bad drives out the good. Democracy says that incompetence
is better than corruption; the truth will out. But standardizing
on corruption and optimizing incompetence appear to be metastable.
clue:
“Metastable” means out-of-equilibrium but able to persist for
a long time.
take oh take this clue away
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