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This is really hilarious: > When asked, RDX Works executives informed Jepsen that blockchain/DLT readers would normally understand present-tense English statem
by twsted 5y ago
This is really hilarious:
> When asked, RDX Works executives informed Jepsen that blockchain/DLT readers would normally understand present-tense English statements like these to be referring to potential future behavior, rather than the present.
> Jepsen is no stranger to ambitious claims, and aims to understand, analyze, and report on systems as they presently behave—in the context of their documentation, marketing, and community understanding. Jepsen encourages vendors and community members alike to take care with this sort of linguistic ambiguity.
- hnuser123456 5y agoThe future is now. (sorry for relatively low effort comment.)
- cormacrelf 5y agoI wonder if Finnish startups benefit from a language that does not have a future tense. (This is not a Finnish startup.)
- faraz85 5y agoI like to think most people are able to read marketing material in the context of the roadmap to understand the difference in performance claimed vs. measured - apples and oranges comes to mind
- camgunz 5y agoHey did you uh, make an account for this thread?
- lostdog 5y agoDo you have any affiliation with the Radix project that you'd like to disclose?
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoMost likely: https://radixtalk.com/u/faraz/summary https://radixtalk.com/u/faraz/summary.
- xwolfi 5y agoNo, most people would like to be richer for less effort and therefore will invest early in a technology and expose themselves to larger upsides were it to take of, and repeat marketing material without incurring responsibility if it's false. I will not hold you responsible for what you just said, for instance, because I assume you're just someone who read the official communication of the company you're invested in, even if it's objectively false to say that people are expected to understand ambiguity in a way closer to the spirit rather than in a way closer to the letter. Making marketing material truer will lower the amount of people trapped into the vicious cycle of repeating false claims for the sake of propping up a risky investment, and is good for everyone involved long term. But short-term, making outrageously optimistic statements will create a large amount of proponents which is what probably financed this report in the first place. The difficulty is in ramping up truth without destroying too much the franchisees who are the ones who put up the actual money but valued their investment in light of a false/exaggerated statement.