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I don't have a great view of humanity as a whole - so if this disaster was avoided because we had particularly skilled people in the right place at the right ti

by munk-a 6y ago

I don't have a great view of humanity as a whole - so if this disaster was avoided because we had particularly skilled people in the right place at the right time I applaud them but think that system really needs to be unbroken. By default I assume that someone in a position to make a critical decision at a critical time is going to be incompetent and won't trust a system that doesn't have a good set of safeguards - ideally regulated into being present.

rhodozelia 6y ago
particularly skilled people go in to grid operation control rooms, power plant control rooms, airplane cockpits, etc, all over the world every day. This is their career. They are trained to deal with failures of the system they operate and to take over control from the automatic systems when the computers can't make the right decision.