Re:New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse
by Fade_Dance on Saturday August 16, 2025 @06:42PM
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What a scary situation (for once that word seems properly used here).
They weren't even taking into account things like uncertainty and fat tail events, which is the usual cause of complacency and disaster in these sort of situations. Take an average hundred year span and it was almost certain to collapse and kill thousands. Wow.
Re:New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse
by cedws on Saturday August 16, 2025 @10:33PM
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I heard about this story recently and I was surprised how they got away with covering it up. IMO if a building has a chance of collapse you have a moral duty to tell the people inside it. And this whole thing was celebrated as a success story of admitting mistakes when they didn’t actually admit the mistake until it was already fixed.
https://youtu.be/Q56PMJbCFXQ?si=GmVD26JBJlot-dff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane
They weren't even taking into account things like uncertainty and fat tail events, which is the usual cause of complacency and disaster in these sort of situations. Take an average hundred year span and it was almost certain to collapse and kill thousands. Wow.
People recognizing "I don't like this information, but I have to do the hard thing." is what keeps society going.