McKenzie's Razor and Shaving Cream: Don't attribute to evil what you can explain by emergent behavior in complex system. You should aggressively update your estimate on whether a system is bugged or not by inspecting whether the system delivers sensible outputs given its inputs.
-
-
Show this thread
-
This is instrumentally useful for technologists because you probably spend a lot of your time around very smart people and very bugged systems, and therefore you will not prematurely rush to conclude "Hmm that there black box has smart people operating it; probably flawless."
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Hanlons Razor should always be used in combination with ockhams, shouldn't it?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.