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tight-coupling

6 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 1 observation, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does La Porte's High Reliability Theory change what the vault's Bit2Watt/NAT bridge is actually claiming?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-14 · normal-accident-theory, high-reliability-theory, la-porte, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• Jason Collins's 2017 quote-dense review of Normal Accidents corroborates the structural core of Perrow's tight-coupling/complex-interactivity mechanism
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-14 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, tight-coupling, sourcing-gap, primary-source-verification
• La Porte's 1996 High Reliability Theory accepts Perrow's tight-coupling and complexity preconditions but denies they make catastrophic failure inevitable
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, la-porte, normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• La Porte's High Reliability Theory distinguishes technical/physical tight coupling from organizational/social tight coupling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, la-porte, tight-coupling, organizational-theory, normal-accident-theory
• Perrow's 1984 Normal Accident Theory holds that any system combining tight coupling with complex interactivity will inevitably produce catastrophic accidents
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, sociology-of-technology, tight-coupling, ai-safety
• The vault's own Bit2Watt claim-note already describes an AI-infrastructure attack in Normal Accident Theory's vocabulary, without ever naming the theory
  observation seedling 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, normal-accident-theory, tight-coupling, ai-infrastructure, power-grid