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[evanjrowley]

It is important to learn from one's own mistakes, but if an institution is too big to fail, then does it ever really learn?

[Terr_ → evanjrowley]

If any entity can't fail, does it need to learn? :p

That said, some of it is a matter of perspective: To bacteria, individual humans are "too big to fail" in the same way geography is.

[thaumasiotes → Terr_]

> To bacteria, individual humans are "too big to fail" in the same way geography is.

...which is why diseases rapidly evolve away from lethality?

[Terr_ → thaumasiotes]

That sounds like an attempted "gotcha", but I think you missed the "matter of perspective."

Imagine some strain of surviving bacterial-descendants are a marginally less-deadly than their predecessors after one solar year. What measure would you use for the comparison?

If you were to pick "generations", that might be ~9000 for the bacteria, while applied to humans it's ~40x longer than all recorded history.

Anywho, point is that for every "too big to fail" things there is usually a longer timescale where it stops looking that way.