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You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallacy-of-gray https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/
by Strilanc 5y ago
You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallacy-of-gray https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ).
> The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”
> The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view ...”
> —Marc Stiegler, David’s Sling
- labster 5y agoYou have two colors. You say, “I know, I’ll make a color that covers everyone’s use case with regular expressions.” Now you have three problems.
- GuB-42 5y agoThat's the fallacy of gr[ae]y.
- whatshisface 5y agoYou have two competing colors. You design a new, unified color that covers the use cases of both. Now you have three competing colors.
- ruined 5y agothis list is incomplete. you can help by expanding it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_spaces_and_their_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_spaces_and_their...
- midjji 5y agoThis is such a great idea.