Re:Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
by fatbird on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:53AM
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The genius of targetting "diversity" is that it's both intuitively easy to understand (whether you believe it), and absolutely unfalsifiable. There's no way to demonstrate that an influx of "diverse" people are the cause of a decrease in competence, but it's an obvious correlation that plays into lingering bigotry. Well done, Harold.
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Re:Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
by thephyber on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:00AM
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We are smack in the middle of a massive collision of social panics and the common thread is that they are all unfalsifiable.
I’m starting to believe The most useful tool in avoiding being suckered by these panics is to actively identify when a claim is unfalsifiable.
Re:Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
by MattGaiser on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:05AM
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I am trying to figure out if "escalating rates of failure" is at all true, and of course it will depend on what you measure, but not seeing a lot of evidence.
This is not to say that there are not critical societal issues, but a general loss of reliability in cases where that reliability is truly desired? Not seeing very much of that.