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Well, I would say that the complexity of complexity is exponential.

In the aerospace industry, to get that last percent of a percent, 2 completely independent implementations of everything are used. Then to get another decimal, you add 2 more implementations and a consensus algorithm. Then of course you add static/unit/api/integration/stress/fuzz test suits for each implementation. Then test the tests. Then have a human run each test as the "second implementation" of the CI system. And so on, and so on. Each new decimal "9" cost multiple time more in human resource alone.

Then take into account the "productivity loss" of all those process and you need yet more poeple to progress as fast. Adding more people to a project has a diminishing return. After a while you can spend the entire GDP of the world and you wont be able to add another availability decimal point.




>After a while you can spend the entire GDP of the world and you wont be able to add another availability decimal point.

And in a couple decades, when the world GDP is a bit higher, formal methods will become practical in real-life situations.


This work needs to happen on both sides. Format methods need to become much cheaper and more accessible.




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