u know how ping pong balls come in 1 star, 2 star, and 3 star varieties? They’re all part of the same process, it’s the QA that filters out the good from the bad.
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E.g. 99% accuracy for say 100 different parts means that a perfect end product chance is 0.99 ^ 100 = 36%.
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b/c china is mostly poor, tossing out 64% is unacceptable. the lower quality product is just sold in the domestic market for 10x cheaper even though the same factory makes them.
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so when someone doesn’t want to pay 10x markup b/c “it’s all branding and marketing” misses the point that the 10x markup is the “it just works” price of going through reliable QA
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this same mechanism is in effect for government projects where there are higher QA reqs at every step which drastically increase price, add friction, etc... and often makes things unworkable.
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it’s NOT about capability or morality. It’s just “business”.https://www.netflix.com/title/81090071
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The first step to trying to figure out perceived immorality is to first be able to distinguish amorality from immorality. The larger and more complex the system the more amorality exists.
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Morality is a 1:1 issue even if the “individuals” aren’t actually individuals. (Countries, companies, ...) the limitation of being able to only see the world through a morality lens is inability to accept complex systems that are mostly amoral.
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Even at the level of the individual a “Real Self” may not exist, the perceived self is just the mouthpiece or CEO of a 10,000 employee company.
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