If the collective behaves like a self-organised critical system, its large failures come from the same dynamics as its small ones, so small incidents (agent errors, bad claims, small losses) should be logged and analysed as samples of the distribution its catastrophes will come from, not dismissed as one-offs or patched case by case.

Evidence 3 passages

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  Large catastrophic events occur as a consequence of the same dynamics that produces small ordinary everyday events.

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  most of the changes of the system are associated with the large, catastrophic events

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  The prime model of Self Organized Criticality turns out not to display much of that notorious Criticality after all.

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