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Bradbury certainly had a strong sense for how society/technology evolve. Are such accidents worth the cost of essentially creating additional free time for the
by darkerside 10y ago
Bradbury certainly had a strong sense for how society/technology evolve. Are such accidents worth the cost of essentially creating additional free time for the majority of car-operating humanity? Sorry for the leading question.
- Swizec 10y agoAre school shootings worth the cost of guns you can buy easily? US sure thinks so. Sorry for the loaded answer.
- darkerside 10y agoA sincere apology if you took my previous post as flippant. If it wasn't clear, I believe we need to think twice any time we value convenience over safety.
- Swizec 10y agoI agree, and my reply was also unnecessarily flippant. Historically speaking, we don't have a good tack record of assessing infrequent but catastrophic risk versus consistent but small reward. As a society we tend to consistently choose the latter. Then try to retroactively reduce probability of catastrophic failure.