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Huh? Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. That’s a pretty fast change. Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innova

Huh? Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. That’s a pretty fast change. Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. It alters the incentives to align the innovation with public benefit. If properly caring for society is too slow for you, your part of the problem.

tpmx 6y ago
> Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. Oh did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E2%80%93present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E... Edit: > Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. Citation required. This is strongly non-intuitive.
- josefx 6y ago
  > Oh did they? First one only sagged, no catastrophic failure, no deaths, no injuries. A few more on that list were over a hundred years old. Not sure when he started holding engineers responsible. Then you have the bridges rammed by ships, terrorism, construction accidents, a wooden suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere that had an upper limit of three and was used by seventy, etc. . Seems as if the bridges themselves have held up fairly well.
  - tpmx 6y ago
    Perhaps a less conservative bridge development culture would have resulted in more innovative bridges that could have avoided those incidents?
    - klyrs 6y ago
      History shows that less conservative bridge culture will reduce costs at the detriment of safety.