Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt
by dctoedt on Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:19PM
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> Take all of your fears, drives, and insecurities, add your unreliable risk-assessing abilities (common to most humans) and an amount of adrenaline that many of us will never experience, and cram them into the space of seconds in the face of certain death, in front of an audience. I simply don't see the use of second-guessing a decision made under those circumstances.
That's why you have to try to war-game these things in advance -- because in the heat of the moment you won't have time or capability to analyze them rationally. (It's the same reason why athletes and soldiers and sailors train incessantly, so that they can rely largely on trained pattern recognition, a.k.a. reflex.)
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> It's fun to think about what I might do, but I have no way to relate to the actions of someone else. It's just too complicated.
That's why you have to try to war-game these things in advance -- because in the heat of the moment you won't have time or capability to analyze them rationally. (It's the same reason why athletes and soldiers and sailors train incessantly, so that they can rely largely on trained pattern recognition, a.k.a. reflex.)
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> It's fun to think about what I might do, but I have no way to relate to the actions of someone else. It's just too complicated.
Um, OK.