What Dan Luu thinks about behavioural science

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Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur, on infrastructure at Microsoft and Google, and latterly at Wave. He writes long, data-heavy posts at danluu.com that test the software industry's folk wisdom against whatever evidence can actually be found.

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1. 29 Dec 2015

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

   Their wordsThe 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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