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> Would you care to explain how you think he managed to overlook those films in the first place? Because he's human? I'm baffled by the number of people who s
by aninhumer 11y ago
> Would you care to explain how you think he managed to overlook those films in the first place?
Because he's human?
I'm baffled by the number of people who seem to think any individual, even a talented director, is somehow able to bring to mind all films that meet a particular criteria, with such absolute precision that a film's exclusion from the initial list is a definitive statement that he considers it unworthy.
- mikeash 11y agoIt's typical hacker absolutism. You see it everywhere. The very notion of subjectivity is rejected because it's too difficult to deal with. It shows up all the time in discussions of hiring diversity. A large number of people assume that hiring decisions are done by making a perfect ranking of all candidates by ability, then choosing the one at the top. Any deviation means you're getting someone suboptimal. Thus, any hiring diversity initiative necessarily means a decrease in worker quality. Same thing here. Spike Lee created an exact, perfect list of films that exceed some threshold. Altering it afterwards means the list is no longer perfect.