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I wonder, if his ghost could talk to us now, I’d he would have done anything differently. Maybe that seems like an absurd question to ask because... he’s dead.
by erikpukinskis 3y ago
I wonder, if his ghost could talk to us now, I’d he would have done anything differently.
Maybe that seems like an absurd question to ask because... he’s dead. But his position seems to be: some things can never happen unless someone just risks it.
And that math doesn’t really change with the knowledge “he dies”. It’s possible there are some alternative timelines out there where “he risks it and survives” and maybe there are zero timelines where “he plays it safe and makes it to the Titanic” and if that’s the case then maybe he did it exactly as he intended.
There are many pursuits like this: mountaineering, car racing, etc, where the choices (at a certain level of aspiration anyway) are: A) risk death or B) don’t do it.
I’m certainly not risking death, but I don’t really judge people who do.
I do judge that dad who convinced his teenage son to risk his life. That was absolutely evil.
- xwdv 3y agoWe could talk to his ghost in a way. If we could gather up all the text and transcripts of things he wrote and said, we could feed it to an LLM and interrogate it with questions.
- paulcole 3y agobrb applying to the next hn batch w/ this idea gives a whole new meaning to post-mortem
- paddw 3y ago> I do judge that dad who convinced his teenage son to risk his life. That was absolutely evil. Moreso, he was likely foolish in considering the actual extent of the risk, like everyone on the sub.
- SkipperCat 3y agoThe sad thing is he's taking risks for no benefit. It's not like what he's doing is going to increase the body of knowledge or rescue some puppies trapped at the bottom of the sea. He's just taking stupid risks to run an expensive amusement park ride.