[lazide]

Notably, the type of people who do B are extremely dangerous around anything involving engineering, science, etc - anything where reality actually matters.

Because type A people are what are required to actually fix problems, or learn more things.

Type B people exist when those are ‘not desirable’. Which should indeed scare you, if you care about actual reality (or actual reality matters) in that domain.

[Moru]

Especially when type A people are working in an environment where the leadership with the guns is type B people. Then type A will proactively switch to type B reasoning to stay alive.