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		ClumsyPilot on Jan 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport nono, imagine you have a personal 1 seater plane The presence of a backup option affects your decision making. Human brain assumes the backup is reliable. If you install some 50/50 backup, you put more people at risk

zmgsabst on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

Right — that situation is completely unlike the actual one. Different situations reasonably have different constraints.

Why is imagining something completely different useful?

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