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Is it possible that companies, teams within companies, and/or individuals might exploit "Hanlon's Razor" to their own benefit? It's easy to say "Oh, whoops" and

by cname 10y ago

Is it possible that companies, teams within companies, and/or individuals might exploit "Hanlon's Razor" to their own benefit? It's easy to say "Oh, whoops" and often there's no easy way to prove incompetence vs malice. And because people are aware of this cliche/meme, they may be more susceptible to it. I wonder if people said "Hanlon's Razor" when they first heard about the VW emissions scandal. NOTE: I'm just thinking out loud here. I don't have any particular bias against Microsoft.

jdmichal 10y ago
> I wonder if people said "Hanlon's Razor" when they first heard about the VW emissions scandal. I don't think that was possible, because the engine specifically performed [0] better during the test and worse during normal operations. So what would Hanlon's Razor be? Whoops, the testing procedure accidentally happened to make our engine perform better? [0] With the definition of performance being emissions output, not power or torque.