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New comment by thx67 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

thx67 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:42:26 +0000

His page links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls which is a harrowing thing to read. We keep rolling the dice with no changes to the game.

New comment by thx67 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

thx67 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:39:55 +0000

When you are at capacity and in a degraded state, you have no additional headroom to get out of that state. Why wounds won't heal, or the poor stay poor.

New comment by thx67 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

thx67 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:09:48 +0000

This is where the industry made and continues to make mistakes wrt autonomous driving.

They should be able to quantitatively say how many crashes were reduced, avoided and spotted. The autonomous safety system should be running all the time and it should detect not only issues with primary vehicle but it should also catalog issues it sees in other vehicles in its vicinity.

We shouldn't have gotten AD before we got automated crash avoidance.

New comment by thx67 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

thx67 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:48:34 +0000

The problem is that management witnesses the pain, but the response isn't to adjust behavior, it is then to punish the limb where the pain originated from. The reason that people pull heroics is also because the organization isn't healthy, and cannot reflect on its actions. Papering over organizational flaws is a symptom of a larger, often unseen problem. If it was healthy, someone would have already said, "hey, I think we need to work on this networking component" and it would have been looked at.

Pain propagation, to use the corpus metaphor isn't enough.