You know what makes me sad? He fact that when @leashless said "lawyers are literally meatspace engineers who specialize in error handling" you could hear the audience at #devcon4 unwind their bias only for a few seconds to politely clap
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In this situation, the bias caused you to interpret the applause as engineers only temporarily unwinding bias, and discount the possibility of there being engineers in the room who consistently acknowledge the role and value of lawyers
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How are you not classifying my statement as a bias in order to diminish my observations? No one's saying that none of the engineers in the room respect lawyers; naturally someone had to start the applause. My observation's scope lies on the plurality that doesn't.
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Well, I suppose I am diminishing your observation, though I’m not doing so out of any ill will. Merely pointing out it’s not as if you polled the audience about why they applauded, so your observation is more about your own interpretation than any objective fact.
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