Viewing Automation as a Hierarchy of Dynamical Systems via Wright's Law
akbirthko · x · 2026-08-03
The author proposes a technical perspective for understanding automation: it should be viewed as a hierarchy of dynamical systems with rich interfaces.
Citing Wright's Law—an inverse power law originally used to study aircraft manufacturing economic learning curves—he illustrates the evolution of complex engineering systems. He metaphorically compares massive manufacturers like Boeing or Airbus to two massive, long-running Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) continuously learning over time.
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