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Zooming into specific anecdotes is a paralyzing trap in almost all policy discussion. This is a population-level question; you look at population level results
by mwint 4y ago
Zooming into specific anecdotes is a paralyzing trap in almost all policy discussion. This is a population-level question; you look at population level results and only look at individual cases to search for obvious terrible effects.
- tpoacher 4y agoThis is true, but still does not counter the "rough prototypes have a bad habit of becoming end-products" curse the OP is effectively talking about. Not to mention your argument could be trivially used to justify social credit scores etc, which most people would agree is bad.