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> In fact, with many accidents, it's often a matter of compounding mistakes.

Yep! One of my favorite elements to many backcountry accidents is what mountaineers call "summit fever". It's a prevalent bug in human psychology. It gets people into trouble in the wilderness all the time, and it has a close cousin in tech circles, the "sunk cost fallacy".

parent thaumaturgy 6 years ago

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