“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat … but it went down because it took on water.” […] The CEO ruled out any design or construction errors, which he called unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation.
This sounds like an out-take from the “front fell off” skit.
This is a clear warning to anyone who thinks about delving into Bayesian statistics, imo.
The sheer fucking smug hubris of naming a boat that, and presumably conjuring up bullshit probability statistics for why they’re too smart to follow best-practice safety procedures.
Ah yes, the strategy of “ignoring well publicized storm reports” and “not taking a single well-established precaution such as lowering the rudder for stability and closing windows and doors”
Bayesianism is more powerful than any of that old thinking. The dead should just adjust their priors in the next reality over where their quantum immortality continues. big-yud
“Yacht maker who makes yachts for billionaires scrambles to blame the crew so he can save more yachts and not be sued”
That’s the story here. He’s trying to set the narrative as entirely human error rather than a design flaw. For example one concern is how quickly an intact vessel sank - 30 seconds is being claimed in some areas - and the yacht may have an overlong aluminium mast which contributed to it capsizing .
People saying they don’t care about billionaires dying are missing the point. The yachts maker is trying to pin it on the crew before its even been properly investigated.