We should probably bite the bullet and try turning GPS off in a controlled test to see what breaks.
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What if there really was a significant risk that people would subsequently die because of dependencies in their infrastructure. In such a case it couldn't be tested.
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This is not a reason to not test. You can either test and discover or wait and your what if becomes a discovery at an inevitable point in the future. One is a lot more under your control than the other.
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Let’s say it’s really bad and there’s an accident a minute or something crazy like that if you turn it off. You found that out and had a few accidents when you temporarily turned it off, allowing you to avoid the accident per minute that would happen until repair during failure.
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This disagreement can't really progress any further than the assertion that knowing testing is likely to cause deaths isn't a reason to not do the testing.
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If you know it might cause deaths, by not testing, you don’t know for sure, you push the possibility of deaths out to actual failure, and if there are deaths people die until you are able to get the system back up during failure. It’s possible few vs possible many. You want few.
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Ideally you do closed system tests and try to avoid the real test until you’re reasonably certain that there will be no accidents but fear is not a good reason to avoid testing. It’s a good reason to verify for certain so you can make sure it doesn’t happen ever again.
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If you really want to kill people, you'd test by moving everything a hundred meters to the left.
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I don't want to be the one to decide who lives and who dies, but I also don't think fear is a good reason to avoid testing. The only case where I'm "ehh" on this is: I heard during the trinity tests, there was a worry that a nuke could ignite the atmosphere. They tested anyway.
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