chesterton’s anti-fence: when a group of people has torn down a fence, do not argue for putting it back up until you understand why they wanted it gone
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you’re proposing something distinct and actually good i’m proposing stacking one mediocre heuristic with the opposite mediocre heuristic in order to exacerbate the contradictions
“Mediocre heuristic” is an oxymoron. The idea of a heuristic is to codify a mediocre quick ‘n dirty 80-20 type rule of thumb
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if people use it as if it’s an 80-20 rule of thumb, and it’s actually a 50-50 rule of thumb, it’s not doing very well as a heuristic
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