SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoThere's so many more ways that something can go wrong, than ways that it can go right.message-squaremessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareThere's so many more ways that something can go wrong, than ways that it can go right.SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square30linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelokalhorst@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoBut not all outcomes are equally likely. The probabilities is what matter in the end.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoThat’s true. I suppose we build our environments and systems to alter those probabilities
minus-squareTheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours agoWe chose to accelerate climate change, pollute water sources, and take our anger out on each other as a human race, all at the same time
minus-squareTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoAnd not all failures are clearly absolute failures. It can be debatable. Some of them can also be beneficial in unexpected ways. See also: Discovery of penicillin
But not all outcomes are equally likely. The probabilities is what matter in the end.
That’s true. I suppose we build our environments and systems to alter those probabilities
We chose to accelerate climate change, pollute water sources, and take our anger out on each other as a human race, all at the same time
And not all failures are clearly absolute failures. It can be debatable. Some of them can also be beneficial in unexpected ways.
See also: Discovery of penicillin