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Confront reality. Like an adult. If someone has screwed up so catastrophically that they are confronting destruction, the sane thing isn't to pursue the same
by pjkundert 4y ago
Confront reality. Like an adult.
If someone has screwed up so catastrophically that they are confronting destruction, the sane thing isn't to pursue the same course with greater vigor.
I'm a programmer. I'm wrong dozens of times a day, 5-6 days a week, over the last 40 years.
By admitting it, and not making-believe that I'm some all-knowing genie and that "the computer must be wrong", I quickly humble myself, admit that I'm wrong and search for the root cause of the problem.
This will never happen, apparently, at the Federal Reserve, until it is too late for them to avoid massive destruction and death in our society.
- snapcaster 4y agoYou understand that the market/economy isn't an unthinking unfeeling computer right? Admitting you were wrong doesn't change the underlying computer. This is a totally different situation. If you admitting there was a bug in your code made the computer less likely to work in the future or self destruct entirely you would likely have different behaviors