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between this and the submersible guy I’m starting to think we need more billionaires on the ocean. maybe peter thiel is onto something
Sadly the orcas only attack smaller sailboats, not the mega yachts. They are not the anti billionaire allies.
Poseidon is said to prefer Australian Prime Ministers as sacrifices, but maybe he’ll accept a few techbros.
Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.
Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–
“This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”
“people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”
Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”
“When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”
“Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.
Oh.
I don’t know. I feel like the prior for putting tech billionaires on massive single-masted yachts with high waterlines and low air vents is still pretty positive. This is only one bad voyage; consider how many trips provide evidence that this is a good plan.
Much like Titan, which had several successful voyages to the Titanic that other billionaires should seek to emulate by using the exact same sorta-procen design and construction that Titan did.
@dgerard Do not mess with HP, they have the *real* orbital weather control lasers! /s
Ok so if hubris somehow becomes a synonym of bayes I’d be all for it
Well naive bayesianism, as practiced by the rationalists. Bayesianism itself can be reformed to get rid of most its problems, though I’ve yet to see a good solution for the absent-minded driver problem.
His Wikipedia article is quite a ride. Apparently he and a Stephen Chamberlain were recently found innocent for a bunch of fraud charges. They boil down to inflating the value of a SW company he sold to Hewlett-Packart. They died within a day of each other in unrelated accidents. Must be rough.
Damn, HP doesn’t mess around. I’m going to stop trashing them around the office.
Right? Didn’t even get caught hiring assassins, unlike those Boeing clowns. Just a weird coincidence, haha!
