I want to frame this as a meta-question. The events that provoked this are tragic, but I'm interested in the general case. Why does our society routinely fail to heed credible warnings?pic.twitter.com/mCQVhNrWpz
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so back to the original picture I see us as having decision makers working in an environment of many signals of things that need to be dealt with, many signals of uncertain value, they probably handle many of those and in any case we only hear when good signals are missed
anyway this was awful but i think its likely that the optimal number of collapsed buildings is not zero
One day I'll swear I'll write an academic article called something like : "Overpopulation in Science-Fiction : the Apocalypse that never came" By reading Niven, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Scott Card, I realised how insanely overwhelming was the topic up until the 90s
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