Actually check out this thread of mine. (Him deleting his tweets has messed up the order)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1018498560789286912 …
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Screenshot format. A high-profile rescue is as much about managing the officials and everyone who was (unworkable) ideas as the rescue. The number of divers who could carry this out were so few that rescuehalted while they slept. Backup option should have been quietly developed.pic.twitter.com/1QZpxcKjXy
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Replying to @zeynep @GarethDennis
Indeed, quiet is good. But why was this so noisy? Frankly because of the media whipping up controversy more than anything. Musk's tweets *were* reasonable and took care to not give himself credit. Media presented it very differently and created a shit storm of controversy.
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I know people who've done cave rescue (and been victims in cave rescues) and they too complain about media. But that's it, they're complaining about the media itself...
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Agree about the media part, though social media is media under his control. Also, from what I can tell, the cave-diver community was agnostic to "okay, let's see" to Musk as backup *until* he started tweeting videos & the widespread media coverage. Then they feared the PR affect.
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The kind of iterative design we see in other safety cultures requires thick skin. Do you ever read incidents sections of scuba or caving boards?
NTSB type debriefings etc. Musk's thin skin to criticism isn't just a personality issue: iterative safety requires thick, thick skin.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @zeynep @GarethDennis
Yes I have; I am a caver. Sorry, but I see both "sub" solutions as sane iterative design based on sound engineering. There's just nothing to criticise there given the constraints. And iterative design *is* something SpaceX has lots or experience with.
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Replying to @peterktodd @GarethDennis
Caver on ground says it was rigid therefore useless and you lash out calling him a "pedo guy". I'm sure SpaceX team has people who are not that thin-skinned but he's the CEO. He also insulted the geologist expert who led the Thai side because he politely said couldn't use sub.
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Replying to @zeynep @GarethDennis
*One* of the cavers on the ground, in the midst of a developing media shit storm, after being asked to continue. Believe me, I agree that Musk shouldn't have done that, but I do not think media coverage has been helpful here. Even your statement there is misleading.
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Media is not good at nuance unfortunately, and it is good at generating outrage where none was needed (yet often bad at generating outrage where it was needed). I run into this frequently in my day job as well. Very annoying.
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Actually don’t disgree. Online economics plus human attention dynamics have greatly exacerbated these problems.
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