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Concentrate redundancy investments at nodes and connections

Concentrate redundancy investments at nodes and connections where failure consequences are highest rather than distributing uniformly across all system components.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Every detection system faces a fundamental tradeoff between (tradeoff between sensitivity and false alarms) and Losses loom larger than equivalent gains in human (losses loom larger than gains). The principle prescribes resource allocation strategy based on differential failure consequences. It's actionable (concentrate at high-consequence points) and general (applies to any redundancy design problem).

Source Lessons

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Redundant relationships provide resilience

Multiple paths between important nodes make a system more robust.

Connections

Derived From (2)

AxiomLosses loom larger than equivalent gains in human AxiomEvery detection system faces a fundamental tradeoff between

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