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It's very rhetorically convenient how extreme positions become shortenings of very carefully qualified statements when questioned. As for the subject matter, i
by ad404b8a372f2b9 4y ago
It's very rhetorically convenient how extreme positions become shortenings of very carefully qualified statements when questioned.
As for the subject matter, it's a position I've seen defended on here. Sure it's random people, it's also a forum of software engineering professionals, you're not going to contribute much if you write-off everyone who disagrees with you as "non-credible".
- mdp2021 4y ago> convenient It is also the case, happily. "Nobody does that" openly implies, "oh my, some do". Like a legitimate "No True Scotsman". It does mean "show me a credible practitioner that thinks differently - then, let us see the elaboration". It is language: you have a full burden to interpret it. (And the guidelines oblige you to rubberbanding to the plausible.) > everyone who disagrees It is not a poll, it is never a poll: it is the arguments that count. And we are all professionals with different stories. Of course some defended a position against obscurity: by default, they must have meant that having algorithms cross checked saves the enterprise from the embarrassing finding by some mathematician that your apparently strong algorithm reduces to, say, a bit-shift. Or they could have misinterpreted the above completely and now shout "make everything public": because those individuals exist, and they are part of what you meet, and their presence does not have a Bayesian effect on truth.