timtyler comments on Singularity Institute Executive Director Q&A #2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 10 January 2012 11:22:52AM -1 points [-]

If you have a system in which a single failure could mean extinction of anything very important, then it seems likey that there must have been many failures in safety systems and backups leading up to that situation - which would seem to count against the idea of a single failure. We have had many millions of IT failures so far already.