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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Oct 2019
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      My thanks to @DRMacIver whose recommendation of https://how.complexsystems.fail/  led me into this literature.

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    2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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      If you wanted longer reading on the subject you might enjoy "Behind Human Error". I struggled a bit with reading it though there was a lot I liked about it.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Oct 2019
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      Thank you!

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    4. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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      You might also like "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters" which doesn't connect up to the theory much but is a lot of good accounts of disaster in a very specific safety critical industry.

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    5. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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      Mostly it's good reading for understanding how badly people fuck up in practice in contexts where you really would expect them to take the time to get things right.

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    6. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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      Surprisingly, the sections on refining nuclear materials are especially interesting. There's a simple rule for making refining safe: Never have a vessel with a wide enough diameter that it can go critical if filled, even if you don't think it can have fissible materials in it.

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    7. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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      Except, this rule is always violated in practice, because some containers just can't possibly have fissible materials in them because that bit's not even connected up to anywhere they can be, so people forget about it. This goes about as well as you might expect.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Oct 2019
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      I don’t need to use prepared SQL here; there’s no way user input could get to this function.

      10:28 AM - 21 Oct 2019
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        1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 21 Oct 2019
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          Yup, almost exactly that well, only with more explosions.

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