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Plenty of people have this ability - the vast majority of people in my personal & professional life take responsibility for their mistakes, own up to them, and
by nostrademons 4y ago
Plenty of people have this ability - the vast majority of people in my personal & professional life take responsibility for their mistakes, own up to them, and try to make them right. Even my four year old occasionally does it.
The problem is that we've created a system where political and corporate discourse does not allow these people to rise to the top, and selects for people who deflect and never admit wrongdoing. Given a large enough audience, there is always some vocal minority who will crucify you for any mistake. If you wish to lead an organization or institution with a large stakeholder base, you learn to never admit the mistake, because if you do you will soon not be leading that institution. This is why we can't have nice things.
I think there's a relatively simple fix, but it'll probably never happen because it's contrary to why we have leaders in the first place. If the masses crucified leaders for mistakes they made but didn't admit rather than mistakes they admitted, the incentive would be to avoid making mistakes, not avoid admitting them. But this would require that everyone "trust but verify", and that they do (or at least believe) independent research into the performance of their leaders. The whole reason we have leaders and specialization is so that the masses do not need to perform this time-consuming and intellectually-draining work. This is also why we can't have nice things.
- jesuscript 4y agoYes, I come from shitty parenting too.
- waltbosz 4y agohow do you pronounce your alias? is it jesus-script, or jez-yew-script? Hmm, I wonder if there are any religions based around the worship of a programming language They could cite their lore as StringUtil.xjs:Slice:1-23
- jesuscript 4y agoI can recite you, yes.
- bretthowell 4y agoGot to admit, thought this was trolling at first… but then realized the absolute genius of your comment! Had me rolling in the floor with stitches! Bravo
- jesuscript 4y agoQuick on the uptake. I make dust out of people. You can see me slip into it right? It’s an exponential function. That I know.
- waltbosz 4y agoglad you enjoyed it. I wish I could have been there to witness your reacton.
- achrono 4y ago+1. I think if we do ever get to a solution for "trust and verify", it would only then create a new problem as to how do you trust and verify this solution/system that allows us to do so in the first place.
- drewcoo 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify It effectively means "don't trust; verify."
- mistermann 4y agoWhy not simply make the claims of the system itself subject to the very same epistemic methodologies it applies to claims from other parties? The fact that almost no organizations outside of institutions of science (which are often far from perfect themselves) apply formal/strict epistemic methodologies may be something worth paying some attention to. Every long journey begins with a single step, but if humanity refuses to take that first step (or discuss it), the desired destination of the journey may not be reached.
- mistermann 4y ago> Plenty of people have this ability - the vast majority of people in my personal & professional life take responsibility for their mistakes, own up to them, and try to make them right. Even my four year old occasionally does it. Most people are able to do it sometimes, but can the people you mention do it always, or even remotely close to that? > But this would require that everyone "trust but verify", and that they do (or at least believe) independent research into the performance of their leaders. This would require a trustworthy independent research body. I know of no such body that would reach my standards of trust. I can't think of an organization that even tries to do so in a serious manner.