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Yancey Ward's avatar

"for the purpose of this article, assume that the New York Times produces journalism"

LOL!!!

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Rosetta The Stoned's avatar

The distributist has a good video on the idea of the exception that proves the rule. The idea being that, while this makes no sense in the natural sciences, in the social sciences organic rules tend to have exceptions because they are imperfect representations of the relationships that they are modeling. Where ideas that are post hoc justified with no true scottsman logic and other excuse making techniques tend not to have exceptions because they are non falsifiable.

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Rosetta The Stoned's avatar

I think there's a sort of an analogy here. Like, it's actually a good sign when you see a decision making process making errors and then acknowledging and correcting them.

Similarly, a boss that revises decisions when new information comes in tends to be a good boss, and a boss that denies new information because it would make him look weak tends to be a bad boss.

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Miloš Milosavljević's avatar

Oh lord, the Fukuyamists / determinists are back with AI. It was only a matter of time.

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Louis Noble's avatar

It will be funny if writers have to pepper their prose with the n-word someday just to prove they're not machines.

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