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People reliably skip the practices known to prevent rare catastrophes, and then rationalise the shortcut as the reasonable thing to do.

Drawn from what Dan Luu said

Subjectbehavioural science
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behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Dan Luu actually said

  1. Dan Luu Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur
    The data are clear that humans are really bad at taking the time to do things that are well understood to incontrovertibly reduce the risk of rare but catastrophic events.

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    ↗Normalization of deviancedanluu.com

    29 Dec 2015

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