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Okay, I removed that phrase, but what do you want me to say here? Entire disciplines have devoted decades of research into providing useful guarantees and yet y
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Okay, I removed that phrase, but what do you want me to say here? Entire disciplines have devoted decades of research into providing useful guarantees and yet you're here observing that no human could possibly prevent some disasters... and using that logic to just trash everything and everyone's associated work along the way. I mean, you're clearly technically right that there is no such thing as an absolute guarantee, but... what am I supposed to do with this assertion? Find it insightful? Give up on the notion of a guarantee? Declare everything is useless? What response were you hoping for that you're still not getting?
- chrisseaton 6y agoWhy do you think the phrasing 'shall request ... is intended to' means there? It's a trapdoor for 'actually guarantees nothing', right?
- mehrdadn 6y agoIt means: "In case we didn't get the point across in the technical language above, this is what we're trying to say in plain English." It does not mean "we're just writing this superfluous text to clock in extra hours or pass a word count threshold".
- chrisseaton 6y ago> It does not mean "we're just writing this superfluous text to clock in extra hours or pass a word count threshold". Where have I said I thought it was about writing time or a word count? You've imagined that.
- mehrdadn 6y agoWell I can't guess what else you imagined it to mean besides those, but I hope it's clarified now.
- chrisseaton 6y agoNot really - the language still seems super vague - intentionally so and thus useless. But thanks for trying despite your for some reason bitter snark and sarcasm!
- mehrdadn 6y agoI'm still lost what kind of a response you were hoping for that you didn't already receive, but you're welcome.