A QUESTION FROM OTHERWISE · VOLUME I + II

Why do successful systems sometimes stop learning?

Failure creates obvious evidence. Success is more dangerous: it can turn yesterday's explanation into today's permission not to look again.

Take the strongest success in the system and ask which assumption has received the least scrutiny precisely because the result was good.

ENTER OTHERWISE

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