As a cave diver it just pissed me off when people take completely unnecessary risks and then after they die we can't discuss that they were idiots after the fac

As a cave diver it just pissed me off when people take completely unnecessary risks and then after they die we can't discuss that they were idiots after the fact. I've read so many accident reports of people dying while scuba diving on dives that should be easy. James Cameron has been down on the Titanic 33 times. It can absolutely be explored safely over and over by human submersibles. The only reason for this entirely avoidable accident is the hubris and overconfidence of the OceanGate CEO. The fact that it imploded on a dive to a monument to engineering hubris is almost like Nature is trying to put a period on the end of the sentence here. And there's a lesson to be learned here about silicon-valley-esque "move fast and break all the rules" counterintuitive/contrarian decision making. The blog article on why Titan isn't Classed is a good example of this kind of thinking, which has now been decisively marked-to-market: https://web.archive.org/web/20230619161930/https://oceangate.com/news-and-media/blog/2019-0221-why-titan-is-not-classed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230619161930/https://oceangate... And there's a lesson here about the fact that otherwise smart and intelligence people (which he must have been to found the company) can be utterly stupid at times, and even over the long-term. There's a very common fundamental attribution error / correspondence bias / actor-observer asymmetry going on here where people cannot decouple someone's traits from their actions. You see this as well in some of the recent discussion around Prigozhin where people assert that he is not a stupid man (okay) therefore it is impossible that the whole explanation for the recent coup-attempt-whatever was that he got angry and make a dumb mistake--so it must be some kind of overly-complicated ruse. Also that buying Twitter could be really dumb, and that invading Ukraine could be really dumb. Lots of intelligent men being royally stupid in public lately.