Principles I Find Interesting

by surprisetalk • 2 years ago

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kbknight• 2 years ago

I would add Rob Henderson's "luxury beliefs." But also...

I think the bloggers account for "Parkinson's Law" is too simplistic. If it were just about procrastinators, it wouldn't be as useful. Deadlines (even artificial ones) work because we can always make a system a little cleaner, a little more efficient, with fewer bugs, well past the point where that work has any value.

ldx1024• 2 years ago

That would mean the software would work well. I run that explanation against what I see in practice and in general it is not a good fit.

Along with procrastination (which might have noble motivations) an additional much simpler answer is that people just want to do the minimum they can get away with.

000ooo000• 2 years ago

Occam’s Razor
What is it? The simplest answer is most often correct.

Isn't it: for a given outcome, reached by two hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is usually correct? Which isn't always necessarily the same as "simplest is usually correct", or at least how I commonly see it deployed.

I like Kant's response: "The variety of beings should not rashly be diminished".

Principles I Find Interesting

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