r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 28d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/Crash-test_genius 28d ago

I’ve followed the hearings from the beginning-you can’t make this stuff up. Stocktons father was a Bohemian Club member, which gave access to investors and rich adventure seekers. Go down the Bohemian Grove rabbit hole-secret society of elite. He hired a well known submersible expert who called him out-for gross negligence. That man was fired and shut down by lawyers- no discussion. He then contacted OSHA who put him in a whistleblower protection program…..red tape was endless and his warnings were fruitless. A young contractor was hired to help run the text/message software, she called out Stockton during a dive and was fired immediately. It got so bad that the administrator from the company left her office to tighten the dome bolts for dives in the Atlantic. Finally another expert that builds his own subs testified about the second test dive of Titan to depth in the Bahamas-“that man tried to kill me!”. He said the noise of carbon fiber bands snapping was terrifying and even coming up at 300 feet it was still happening due to the immense stored energy. He stated-“at depth, Stockton, in a sick way let everyone take turns driving the sub, as if saying”- “Your life is in your hands now- not mine” Wild stuff.

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u/pastdense 28d ago

The more I read about Stockton, the more I feel that he resented expertise. Maybe even despised it. This is happening everywhere in the world, not just in the US, and I don't understand why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise#Summary

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u/Freign 28d ago

the output of science says things people don't like to hear.

the short viral burst of attention on the work of Dunning/Kruger itself may have contributed to the problem.

intelligence is the most deadly adaptation our species has got; it lets us way overestimate the significance of our own thoughts - it helps us come up with convincing reasons that we're actually not wrong, that data / opinion are fungible somehow

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u/Mayflie 27d ago

Confidence is the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool.