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Young me took a very different lesson from Feynman's investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

The fundamental human problem is governance in the face of entropy and information overload.

Also known as the The Politics of Attention.

I'm still trying to understand the width and breadth of failure. Starting with Drucker's Managing in Turbulent Times thru Norman's Design of Everyday Things up to now's study of Why Smart People Do Stupid Things.

Sadly, I have no idea how to mitigate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report



Yes you do, everyone does, we just don't want to accept it. The problem with humanity is humans, and human nature. The solution is that we're going to stop being that kind of human, either because we're going to die, or change ourselves in fundamental ways. Humanity as humanity, has no future.




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