[6.46] Power Station Desperation
Overthrowing a dictator is the easy part. What comes after, rarely goes as intended.
6.46 Transcript
Kiro: If the sole concern is survival I feel we should return to camp. There’s food, shelter, power. We probably have to overthrow the current administration, but…
A: No, it won’t work..
A: The one thing these tragedies had in common – people turning on each other. You ever notice that hydroelectric plant on the other side of the bay? It was built 50 years ago to power the aluminum smelter.
A: One winter storms cut off all access and communications, trapping workers inside the plant.
A: They were freezing and starving to death. They decided to cross the iced up bay to the smelter, which still had supplies. But when they got there, they found something even worse waiting for them.
A: We’re different. We’re prepared to ride this winter out ourselves.
Kiro: Something worse?
Three teenagers sit still in a room for one year: the comic.
What’s A’s logic here? “The workers crossed the bay, and then they died. Therefore, not crossing the bay means you survive!” If everyone always dies, I don’t think you’re allowed to draw scientific conclusions from that data.
I think these three would survive. Three people is a good number for cooperation in hard circumstances. But… wasn’t it that everyone needs to survive in order to break the curse?
Yeah, being in charge is hard.
They were mistaken for door-to-door salesmen and got shot.
@Lina Whatevs: The observation he is doing is not of that specific example, it is of a common thread through all the stories: the people trapped in the valley end up killing each other, often as two groups in a war over the limited resources. His conclusion is that they should keep to themselves, not engage with the people of the camp. I think his conclusion is scientifically sound… but he forgot Murphys law: ask what can go wrong. This strategy probably results in the people from the camp attacking these three for their food supplies.
They are dealing with a curse. It doesn’t need to follow normal physical laws, Murphy’s laws would be more relevant. It also doesn’t need to be fair. Maybe the winter would simply not end until they will be dead. The solution, if there is any, is in getting more information and somehow cheat the curse.