I agree that we may question any descriptions, even our own.
However, I emphasized error descriptions not because we find them more suspicious than other kinds of descriptions, but because error descriptions have the unique quality of implicitly asking for corrective action.
We tend to believe that, in an ideal state, a system emits no error descriptions—so actions based on them tend to get prioritized over actions based on other kinds of information.
Because of this, an error description provides a more virulent vector for manipula... (read more)
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I agree that we may question any descriptions, even our own.
However, I emphasized error descriptions not because we find them more suspicious than other kinds of descriptions, but because error descriptions have the unique quality of implicitly asking for corrective action.
We tend to believe that, in an ideal state, a system emits no error descriptions—so actions based on them tend to get prioritized over actions based on other kinds of information.
Because of this, an error description provides a more virulent vector for manipula... (read more)