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Occasional Bouts of Really Intense Stupidity

On hindsight bias:

It’s like we’re saying ‘I was stupid, this one time, and we’ll fix that problem by never being stupid again.’

Hence: “planning for a future where we’re as stupid as we are today”

aka “Must create a system which is resilient to occasional bouts of really intense stupidity”

– Dan Milstein; How To Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots), slide 27

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