TheOtherDave comments on Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 August 2007 03:55AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 December 2010 06:01:39PM 1 point [-]

A friend of mine has a similar story involving why he never allows code-changes after code freeze dates, even if X, even if Y, even if Z. His story, however, involves avatars in a video game sorting their layers in strange ways on obscure video cards to cause breastplates to unexpectedly sort below breasts, which is why I still remember it.

Comment author: David_Gerard 06 December 2010 06:06:21PM 2 points [-]

It's like backups or freedom 0. Approximately no-one gets it until they've been bitten in real life. (I am particularly bad at learning without direct application of forehead to concrete, but am attempting to think more clearly.)