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0 pointsPaulHoule4y ago0 comments

I would probably say the same thing about the people on the other side.

They are not going to solve their problems unless they generating this kind of communication. Fork, if need be.

Unpacking this kind of communication to understand all the details enough to have a confident sense of which one is right if there is a right one is difficult so almost everyone will use a ‘low information’ analysis of the situation which is that they are all wrong.

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eesmith4y ago· 2 in thread

The ‘low information’ analysis you outlined seems so error-prone that I don't think it should be part of anyone's toolbox.

PaulHouleOP4y ago

It's a good heuristic to hit the "flag" button and let some other forum experience the hate.

eesmith4y ago

It's also ends up being a good heuristic for tacitly supporting secret institutional power.

felipec4y ago

Yes, but if you have ten bugs you don't have time to analyze correctly you don't attempt to fix all ten poorly.

You pick the most important one and analyze it at depth.

What you want is to pick the most egregious alleged violation and explore it at depth so that it can be prosecuted correctly, defended correctly, and judged correctly.

You don't put ten allegations on the docket and then say "we don't have time for the defense, so guilty on all counts".

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