Mind · Reasoning
MassAmplifiedError
A fixed error rate in a frozen model grows into a larger absolute error the more is invested in that model
Definition
Mechanism
When information is frozen at a point in time (an arrow's aim at release, a building's initial lean, a line of payment data) and MassAddition then scales it up, the error in that information scales too. The percentage error stays constant but the absolute error grows: the arrow misses by more the further the target, the tower leans further out the taller it gets, a data error costs more the more money is paid on it. So more ambitious targets demand more accurate initial information, and this becomes less likely the faster and larger the investment in one MonoModularity model. Keeping ShapeControl as mass grows requires adding information as you go; a MetaModularity system can do this from its own overlapping models, as overlapping photographs allow a scene to be enlarged.
Preconditions
- Information is fixed at a point and then invested in or scaled
Invariants
- At a constant error rate, absolute error is proportional to the mass added
- The tolerable error rate can only be set in advance if the total mass is known in advance
- Without new information, error in a frozen model cannot shrink as it is scaled
Risks
Failure modes
Committing irreversibly to a plan for an ambitious target without a way to correct along the way
Not knowing how much mass will eventually ride on a piece of information, so its quality standard is set too low
Assuming a small percentage error is acceptable regardless of the scale it will reach
Relationships
Builds on
References
Committing investment (money, matter, energy, people or action) to the information an organisation currently holds
A body plan that holds many overlapping but non-identical models of the same problem, ready to instantiate whichever fits
A body plan in which one model processes every situation, treating each situation as just more data for the same process
Keeping an organisation, model or trajectory close to a desired form or target, with information serving that form
Used by
References
When the total investment is not known in advance, add corrective information as mass is added, from more than one model