Chris Liss on Nostr: If the deterrent is too successful, it eventually stops getting tested, becomes ...
If the deterrent is too successful, it eventually stops getting tested, becomes invisible, then is taken for granted.
The parallel problem is status quo bias which people just assume the familiar state of affairs will persist indefinitely and don’t realize that it’s only so due to conditions. When they see those conditions removed, they are unconcerned because of this bias.
It’s a kind of inductive reasoning which Bertrand Russell attacked by saying “it’s like jumping off the Empire State Building, counting the windows as you fall, and when you get to 80, saying ‘So far, so good!’”
The parallel problem is status quo bias which people just assume the familiar state of affairs will persist indefinitely and don’t realize that it’s only so due to conditions. When they see those conditions removed, they are unconcerned because of this bias.
It’s a kind of inductive reasoning which Bertrand Russell attacked by saying “it’s like jumping off the Empire State Building, counting the windows as you fall, and when you get to 80, saying ‘So far, so good!’”