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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anyway this was awful but i think its likely that the optimal number of collapsed buildings is not zero
we live in an awkward moment in human history where our tools for risk assessment are mostly an emotional evolutionary hangover but we just got to a point where risks can frequently destroy our species and planet. should prob restructure and solve it so optimal = 0 really soon.
ugh i'm mad that plane dots is right. Y2K would've been a disaster had the warnings been ignored and since they were not ignored it was such a non-issue to the general public they don't even think we dodged anything
also reminds me of my one of my many ugly thoughts on near-miss catastrophes, that society only exists because tons of people have doomsday buttons they continually choose not to press "flood the water supply with deadly amounts of lye" was just a slider on somebody's terminal
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