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Sure, but even someone retiring after winning the lottery might deign to write a few things down for you. The point of the bus scenario is that there is not eve
by nkrisc 6y ago
Sure, but even someone retiring after winning the lottery might deign to write a few things down for you. The point of the bus scenario is that there is not even the possibility to ask them a question you might get an answer to.
I don't really see why framing it as a positive thing or negative thing matters, no one is actually getting hit by a bus, it's just a hypothetical scenario.
- BrentOzar 6y ago> Sure, but even someone retiring after winning the lottery might deign to write a few things down for you. Might, or they might not. Just as if someone were hit by a bus, they might be able to communicate from their hospital bed...or they might not. Hope is not a strategy.
- nkrisc 6y ago> Hope is not a strategy. Well yeah, that's why the whole scenario in the first place is that they're hit by a bus and instantly killed. Maybe it should be rephrased as "blown to a million pieces" then there's no question you're discussing a situation in when there's an immediate and irreversible loss of knowledge.