DOSSIER
McCallister
SCALE IS A FAILURE MODE
DOSSIER STANDARD: A dossier records what 0K says and why. It is not a neutral encyclopedia. Allegation and documentation are separated where the archive can separate them.
The attraction
McCallister represents the argument that enough redundancy, power and engineering can make enormous centralized systems safer than dispersed ones.
The objection
At national scale, efficiency becomes dependency. The larger the share of critical computation concentrated in one facility, the more consequential its failure becomes.
0K position
We do not think McCallister is evil. We think institutions keep confusing technically hardened with strategically harmless.