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Respectfully, I think you're trying to do the humble thing by taking a neutral position, which I think is laudable, but your position in this thread has not act

Respectfully, I think you're trying to do the humble thing by taking a neutral position, which I think is laudable, but your position in this thread has not actually been neutral. Your position has been (and my interpretation of this latest comment is that it still is) that this decision is more likely to actually be a good one, because it was made by Musk. But that's not a "humble" position any more than mine is. The humble position might be something like "beats me! what do I know?". I think your position is more like "deferential". Sorry if this turned out to just be a semantic point about word choice. I originally thought that maybe it wasn't, that maybe there's something real here about what it means to have a humble view, but now I think maybe you just did mean something more like "deferential", in which case this was a pointless comment and I apologize :).

cs702 3y ago
No. As I wrote in the top comment of this thread[a] and just repeated, the jury is out. That phrase has a precise meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jury%20is%20out https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jury%20is%2... -- [a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211380
- sanderjd 3y ago
  You also wrote: > But... I'm going to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, because ... I think we're both agreeing that "the jury is out", but disagreeing about which side of the question that jury is deciding should be the one with the "presumption of innocence" :)
  - ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
    Yeah, there's an even larger track record of making decisions that look unwise in the moment and everyone told him they were unwise and turns out they were unwise. That Bayesian prior makes it the most likely outcome until the jury returns with sufficiently convincing evidence to the contrary.

cs702 3y ago

No. As I wrote in the top comment of this thread[a] and just repeated, the jury is out. That phrase has a precise meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jury%20is%20out https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jury%20is%2... -- [a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211380

sanderjd 3y ago
You also wrote: > But... I'm going to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, because ... I think we're both agreeing that "the jury is out", but disagreeing about which side of the question that jury is deciding should be the one with the "presumption of innocence" :)
- ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
  Yeah, there's an even larger track record of making decisions that look unwise in the moment and everyone told him they were unwise and turns out they were unwise. That Bayesian prior makes it the most likely outcome until the jury returns with sufficiently convincing evidence to the contrary.