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I don’t consider appeals to authority when thinking about technical issues.

• jlebar 7y ago
  This isn't an appeal to authority. It's a suggestion that we consider the possibility that they are not wasting their time on make-work. This is Bayesian logic (our prior is that the systems engineers at Google are not incompetent), not an appeal to anything.
  • pizlonator 7y ago
    Just because someone isn’t incompetent doesn’t mean that we should assume they are right. Highly competent people are often wrong. Questioning things is good.
    • jlebar 7y ago
      > Questioning things is good. HN could indeed use more epistemic uncertainty and gray (vs black-and-white) thinking.