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I'm not sure I follow your point - I think you'll find the same attitude towards complexity by operators of military rockets and nuclear power plants. If you look at postmortems/root-cause analyses/accident reports from those fields, you'll generally find that a dozen things are going wrong at any given time, they're just not going wrong enough to cause problems.


We already know humans make mistakes. But for this particular scenario lets blame computers.




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