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> People need to remember that perfection is the enemy. Yeah I'm getting real sick of the stance that if something only fixes 80% of a problem and doesn't perf

> People need to remember that perfection is the enemy. Yeah I'm getting real sick of the stance that if something only fixes 80% of a problem and doesn't perfectly resolve every issue every person might ever encounter, it is a failure and should never be implemented. If it is not causing more harm, and especially if there is a way to address unforeseen harm that might arise, awesome! Let's give it a go. Because sending armed officers out to deal with any little thing that happens is demonstrably not working well right now.

tracerbulletx 6y ago
Yeah, there seems to be a real sense that we are scared to try anything or do anything anymore and an army of people ready to bite off the head of anyone who does.
- random5634 6y ago
  A lot of interventions have "disparate impact" - we had that locally - so a big outcry. So yeah, "trying things" can be somewhat high risk. I think some police departments are trying to be proactive by reducing overall contacts (ie, don't pull folks over for things like missing plates / bad registrations etc, delay or avoid responding to certain other erratic behavior type calls).
eeZah7Ux 6y ago
It has a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy and it seems to be surprisingly common among developers.
- specialist 6y ago
  TIL. Thanks. I really want this phenomenon explained. Slippery slope fallacies, concern trolling, whataboutism, pearl clutching, feinting spells, Copenhagen Effect (blame anyone who tries to help for the original problem), Alistair Cockburn's wisdom about organizational change (tldr: people really, really hate change, of any kind, for any reason). Ad nauseatingum. It's exhausting.
  - eeZah7Ux 6y ago
    Can you share any link regarding Copenhagen Effect? Thanks
    - specialist 6y ago
      Forgive me; I again biffed the name. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7qxhqs/is_it_obvious_that_the_copenhagen_interpretation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7qxhqs/is_i...

tracerbulletx 6y ago

Yeah, there seems to be a real sense that we are scared to try anything or do anything anymore and an army of people ready to bite off the head of anyone who does.

random5634 6y ago
A lot of interventions have "disparate impact" - we had that locally - so a big outcry. So yeah, "trying things" can be somewhat high risk. I think some police departments are trying to be proactive by reducing overall contacts (ie, don't pull folks over for things like missing plates / bad registrations etc, delay or avoid responding to certain other erratic behavior type calls).

eeZah7Ux 6y ago

It has a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy and it seems to be surprisingly common among developers.

specialist 6y ago
TIL. Thanks. I really want this phenomenon explained. Slippery slope fallacies, concern trolling, whataboutism, pearl clutching, feinting spells, Copenhagen Effect (blame anyone who tries to help for the original problem), Alistair Cockburn's wisdom about organizational change (tldr: people really, really hate change, of any kind, for any reason). Ad nauseatingum. It's exhausting.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago
  Can you share any link regarding Copenhagen Effect? Thanks
  - specialist 6y ago
    Forgive me; I again biffed the name. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7qxhqs/is_it_obvious_that_the_copenhagen_interpretation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7qxhqs/is_i...