Several Imperfect Solutions Beats One Perfect Solution

11 Jan, 2026

this post is part of the https://aisafety.dance/p3/
I just find this idea very interesting and wanted to share it.
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we have a problem, which can be illustrated:

Then: although no one solution covers the whole space, the entire problem space is covered by one (or more) promising solutions:

We don't need One Perfect Solution; we can stack several imperfect solutions! This is similar to the Swiss Cheese Model in Risk Analysis — each layer of defense has holes, but if you have enough layers with holes in different places, risks can't go all the way through:

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