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>is there a domain where correctness is not paramount ? pretty much every domain, if you exclude finance & industries that intersect with life and death decisi
by dxbydt 5y ago
>is there a domain where correctness is not paramount ?
pretty much every domain, if you exclude finance & industries that intersect with life and death decisions such as pharma/medicine/airlines/defense.
what’s the correct order of movie recommendation ? its easy to see that given your past netflix history, there is an obviously incorrect order. but there is no obviously correct order - any number of orderings will work. correctness is not paramount.
what’s the correct puzzle to assign to a 1400 on chess.com ? obviously there are hundreds of them that would work. correctness is not paramount.
what’s the “correct price” of a used Ford Focus ? depends on whether you are a bandit who needs the car for a rapid getaway, or whether you are the brother in law of the used car salesman, in which case the correct price is zero usd.
the sole reason why 100 million developers crowd the web programming circuit and not other gatekeeped domains is because correctness is not paramount. whether your color code is off by a shade on this browser or your pixels misaligned on that browser, its all fine so long as it somewhat works. correctness is not paramount. otherwise nothing would ship.