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by afarrell 6y ago
True. Yet how often do you ask a waiter about the challenges of scheduling the maintenance of a commercial refrigerator?
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by afarrell 6y ago
By trying to systematise things because it is the only thing that gives me any sense of stability.
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by afarrell 6y ago
The phrase "fake it till you make it" is also bad programming. Variable names should be intention-revealing.
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by afarrell 6y ago
People can't improve if they lack self-knowledge and others are wiling to bullshit them. "I've got skill gaps as a programmer, especially at broad-level architectural design" is a belief that a mentally healthy person ca
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by afarrell 6y ago
Telling an imposter syndrome sufferer that they have impostor syndrome without any additional evidence is telling a pyrophobic that you won't sell them a fire alarm -- and that they shouldn't expect anyone else to.
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by afarrell 6y ago
And your choice to believe the webpage over me is an (entirely reasonable and wise) exercise in human judgement based on other evidence you have access to.
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by afarrell 6y ago
No, I'm saying that in order to believe in any facts, you have to exercise some level of human judgement and conclude/assume that the entire world has not conspired to deceive you. It is wise to exercise judgement in that directio
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by afarrell 6y ago
"Is this organization credible?" is an opinion, that you might back up with various facts. Right. 100% Agreed. And that implies that a fact like "On 5 January 2020, the WHO said 'Based on the preliminary information from
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Nothing in that statement can fairly be read as "there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19". So you'd like to be 'entitled to your own set of facts' about how to summarise that WHO post becau
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by afarrell 6y ago
> the WHO should figure out a way to rely less on member nations accurately reporting information to them. So you would say that the WHO should be 'entitled to their own set of facts', separate from that of the PRC, correct? Th
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by afarrell 6y ago
That is also correct. Epistemology is hard.
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by afarrell 6y ago
By "we" you mean Homo Sapiens, right?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Epistemology is harder than that. If a government body declares that there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19, am I not entitled to evaluate other evidence and conclude that this statement of fact is incorrect? > Base
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by afarrell 6y ago
> this should make you more confident, not less, in the safety of a well-tested vaccine. Indeed it should! The fact that people are about to communicate messages such as "I am worried that this vaccine caused harm" means that i
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by afarrell 6y ago
yes. But they both still fall under the category of "someone is worried about the harms of a vaccine" So are they both misinformation, or are you painting with too broad of a brush?
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by afarrell 6y ago
This is a _much_ harder epistemology problem than you are giving it credit for. Do you know of a way to ensure that a newly-developed effective vaccine has a non-figuratively literally 0% chance that it could cause anti-dependent enhancemen
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by afarrell 6y ago
In UI design, I've found that "idiot" is not that useful a concept. I think its more useful to think through particular thought processes. A mask is 1. A constant reminder of the presence of the pandemic. 2. Fallible in ways
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by afarrell 6y ago
> have open phase 3 trials that accept anyone willing to waive the risks If we can quickly train up musicians and waitresses to do the data collection, sure.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sometimes, it is about thinking-out-loud about an idea. That is to say, getting multiple dopamine hits as you type a long comment and imagine people on the internet being impressed by a comment you wouldn't be motivated enough to journ
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by afarrell 6y ago
The answer really is community. For example, look at churches. Note that finding a non-personally-exhausting way to prevent a community from fracturing into a toxic mess of infighting is a problem. For example, look at churches.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> steps to achieve this To clarify, you mean this as hypothetical advice for a Tech Lead, right?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> The single best thing you can do for you career is to learn how and when to say no. The hard part is turning off the voice of "What do you mean you don't know? I just want want a rough estimate! What is your fucking problem?&
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by afarrell 6y ago
> do you think buying into this process plus tool is going to solve your organizational problems? No, but broad agreement about what people value and visible signs that people are willing to spend resources on that would. Electric cars a
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by afarrell 6y ago
As I say in my sibling comment to the above, I agree with the core of what you say about OP's code. I share your values about how code should be written, so I'd like to give you a conceptual tool that I've found makes me a mo
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by afarrell 6y ago
The hard part about this is learning what individuals and organisations find valuable.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Huh. hmmm.... You know, I think you've just revealed something about the shallowness of my experience with type systems.
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by afarrell 6y ago
We live in a world of trade-offs. I would rather live in a world where people with real psychological problems can get help and you can get high than the reverse.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> If there is no way to detect false positives, then everyone is a false positive. That does not logically follow. Proof by contradiction: I have invented a dumb test for COVID-19: I look at a linkedin profile of someone, then I lick a b
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by afarrell 6y ago
Okay. I don't see how you make the logical leap from "this monetary policy has harmed me and benefited people I don't like" to "this is not righteous".
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Similarly, if I ask you to serve me a hamburger, there's the implication that someone somewhere has slaughtered an innocent cow. I don't want the innocent cow slaughtered, I just want to eat the hamburger. Yet, it would be fa

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