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shrug, I'm older than her, so the age thing doesn't resonate with me

I appreciate her credentials, but I don't see why her statements are somehow unassailable

and I stick by my point that her history as a fighter pilot has no bearing

not sure where your "gender" point comes from? other than using the pronoun, I made no claims based on gender

I agree with the fact that "experts" are quite often wrong and it's too easy to be derailed by appeal to authority.

On the other hand she has a point. As long as the tech won't be 99.99xxxx safe, it will introduce moral hazard (she calls it "risk-homeostasis" but I don't think that kind of neologism is particularly expressive).

At a meta-level, coining some new term could make someone raise an eyebrow. Perhaps she just didn't know about it.

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