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akkartik · 4148 days ago · link · · parent · post: Kartik Agaram: From Cognitive Biases to Institutional Decay
Yeah I agree with everything you said. Everything we do is imperfect, yes, but if we could write down our intentions then future generations could know where we were imperfect and biased, rather than guess and never be sure. That at least has a possibility of adding new biases that might destructively interfere with the old ones :) I think the analogy with unit testing is correct in a very deep way here. Even if after TDD you may have missed tons of tests you should have written, things that you unconsciously intended but forgot to be explicit about. But the presence of a growing set of tests still makes life easier for those who come after, and the accumulation of tests holds hope of one day being comprehensive.