id: 1161,6
title: Archetypes of systems traps and their opportunities.
date: 2022-03-06

Archetypes of systems traps and their opportunities.

• Policy resistance: Subsystems adjust when system attempts a correction.
• Tragedy of the commons: Many users deplete a resource, assuming helplessness.
• Eroding goals: Bad perceptions reduce expectations, causing goals to slip.
• Escalation: Actors aggressively one-up each other.
• Success to the successful: Getting ahead further ensures further getting ahead.
• Dependence: An actor cedes control to an external intervenor.
• Rule beating: Circumventing rules’ intent.
• Seeking the wrong goal: Measuring metrics that don’t probe the actual state.

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