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HN skews toward believing that if you can be sued, you will be. It's the infinite monkeys theory applied to contract law.
by phendrenad2 3y ago
HN skews toward believing that if you can be sued, you will be. It's the infinite monkeys theory applied to contract law.
- hn_acker 3y ago> HN skews toward believing that if you can be sued, you will be. Maybe it's more like, it doesn't matter how correct you are unless you can afford a good lawyer. The infinite monkey theorem is not applicable. Lawyers who make the bulk of their money from being on the suing side (or not necessarily suing, just being hired to be able to sue) rather than the defending side are not monkeys randomly pressing keys on their keyboards. Then again, not everyone's threat model for "getting sued" is the same.
- phendrenad2 3y agoThese are two separate effects but they are both very real.