"From these lessons in combination, we infer an additional lesson for engineers: If someone doesn’t know exactly what’s going on inside the complicated device subject to all these curses – speed, narrow margins, self-amplification, complications – then they should stop. They should shut it down immediately, at the moment the behavior looks strange; don’t wait until the behavior becomes visibly concerning."
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January 1, 1970

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