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Don't large sectors of the economy rely on precisely consistent behavior to operate?

by civilized 3y ago

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whyenot 3y ago
I don’t think another bold statement, phrased as a question, is what most people would consider “evidence.”
- civilized 3y ago
  I'm phrasing it as a question because I'm asking you to do a small amount of mental legwork to observe the society around you. How does the financial industry work? How are people comfortable executing transactions? Do you generally rely on your bank account to not randomly fluctuate in its balance without cause? Do you work in the tech industry? Do you rely on computers and algorithms and software to do things humans promised they would do? All of this requires a very high level of consistency either in humans or in tools they have created.
  - _heimdall 3y ago
    It's extremely interesting to me that all the examples here only point to humans being consistent in faith of the systems and tools we build
  - doctor_eval 3y ago
    > How does the financial industry work? How are people comfortable executing transactions? Because there are serious checks and balances? Because of double entry bookkeeping, reconciliation, audits and, ultimately, prisons? Systems of governance put into place with the explicit goal of ameliorating the vagueness of individual humans?
    - calrissian 3y ago
      Aren't you mistaking the state and ability of being consistent, with the incentives for consistency? All these systems of governance would ultimately be useless without the ability to conform to them. And conform we do. Maybe the ambiguity in this discussion is how to distinguish consistency from conformism?
  - mistermann 3y ago
    Very high = ?%?
  - vidarh 3y ago
    To me, none of what you mention requires a whole lot of consistency other than in as much as we understand that we are horribly inconsistent we have a whole lot of ceremony and processes built up around what we do to mitigate the wild inconsistencies in the quality of work we do.
_heimdall 3y ago
Economics depends on looking at large enough datasets that inconsistencies can be averaged it and glossed over. People generally following a pattern and precise consistency are very different

Don't large sectors of the economy rely on precisely consistent behavior to operate?

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whyenot 3y ago

I don’t think another bold statement, phrased as a question, is what most people would consider “evidence.”

civilized 3y ago
I'm phrasing it as a question because I'm asking you to do a small amount of mental legwork to observe the society around you. How does the financial industry work? How are people comfortable executing transactions? Do you generally rely on your bank account to not randomly fluctuate in its balance without cause? Do you work in the tech industry? Do you rely on computers and algorithms and software to do things humans promised they would do? All of this requires a very high level of consistency either in humans or in tools they have created.
- _heimdall 3y ago
  It's extremely interesting to me that all the examples here only point to humans being consistent in faith of the systems and tools we build
- doctor_eval 3y ago
  > How does the financial industry work? How are people comfortable executing transactions? Because there are serious checks and balances? Because of double entry bookkeeping, reconciliation, audits and, ultimately, prisons? Systems of governance put into place with the explicit goal of ameliorating the vagueness of individual humans?
  - calrissian 3y ago
    Aren't you mistaking the state and ability of being consistent, with the incentives for consistency? All these systems of governance would ultimately be useless without the ability to conform to them. And conform we do. Maybe the ambiguity in this discussion is how to distinguish consistency from conformism?
- mistermann 3y ago
  Very high = ?%?
- vidarh 3y ago
  To me, none of what you mention requires a whole lot of consistency other than in as much as we understand that we are horribly inconsistent we have a whole lot of ceremony and processes built up around what we do to mitigate the wild inconsistencies in the quality of work we do.

_heimdall 3y ago

Economics depends on looking at large enough datasets that inconsistencies can be averaged it and glossed over. People generally following a pattern and precise consistency are very different