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slx26 | 4 years ago

The problem is always the same: to do things right, you need people who know what they are doing. Redundantly. Yet, most of us don't know what we are doing, so in practice we end up creating proxies for "the people who know what they are doing according to their certificates certify that I know what I'm doing". Because otherwise you wouldn't be accepted in a cool position, and we all want to be in a cool position. And that's how we end up with so much shit overflowing in the world, but people still pretend they have their own under control. Feeling greedy? Play pretend. A few hours later... Want to be accepted? Play pretend. A few hours later... Want to not be left out? Play pretend.

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bluGill|4 years ago

Except that there are real attacks and the insurance companies affects will do postmortems to figure out why what they demanded didn't work. It will be a few rounds before they figure out how to train for this though. More than a few rounds because the bad guys are not stupid and thinking up new things that smart good people need to mitigate.