Thanks for posting about this machine tipping. There is a trend in forums (and of course more broadly in life) to under-report the occurrence of catastrophic events, despite the fact that the knowledge gleaned from failures is often more valuable than that gained from successes. This behavior falls under an umbrella of various related cognitive biases: positive outcome bias, file drawer effect, publication bias, reporting bias.

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