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That might or might not be accurate, but I still care about utility. There are a lot of truths that don't have any utility for me. I celebrate not knowing most
by tom-thistime 6y ago
That might or might not be accurate, but I still care about utility. There are a lot of truths that don't have any utility for me. I celebrate not knowing most of those truths.
I mean do you want to be on this call? ...
A: "One point seven million dung beetles can fit in my suitcase."
B: "Let's get back to work."
A: "Utility has no bearing on truthfulness."
- tengbretson 6y agoI do not want to be on that call. However, if following this exchange, person B goes on to write a blog post titled "One point seven million dung beetles CAN NOT fit in my suitcase" and justifies this claim by saying that knowing how many dung beetles fit in a suitcase is not a useful thing to know, then despite how right they are about the utility, their conclusion is wrong.
- tom-thistime 6y agoSure. They should claim "it doesn't matter," not "it's false." By the end of the article I felt the author said something like "substitute more design space and dev activity for blame analysis."