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Just one more rule bro (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

and it's also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it's the basis of a few fallacies.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The Braess Paradox, or why adding more roads increases traffic congestion and results in longer travel times.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math