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What astonishes me is not that people interpret the scenario differently, but that they are so quick to conclude that others are doing the math wrong and feel s
by topaz0 3y ago
What astonishes me is not that people interpret the scenario differently, but that they are so quick to conclude that others are doing the math wrong and feel superior or even angry, rather than thinking about whether you might be talking at cross purposes about different scenarios.
So I see the second order problem a bit differently: it's not "was the statement unambiguous", it's about what you do with the (possibility of) ambiguity: do you assume you can't be wrong and therefore others must be, or do you try to figure out whether you were solving different problems?
- kristjansson 3y agoHumans don't backtrack well :)
- Verdex 3y agoIt's kind of like the xkcd airplane on a treadmill blogpost: https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-goddamn-treadmill/ https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the... There appears to be problems that make it easy for people to assume the worst of others. And on a side note, I discovered about 6 months ago that mythbusters actually did this experiment. At the end of the day, few things work better than seeing something happen in real time.