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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 logi
by jlebar 6y 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 6y agoJust 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 6y ago> Questioning things is good. HN could indeed use more epistemic uncertainty and gray (vs black-and-white) thinking.