Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Decision Theories
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2006 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101:
There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem". There is, as I have mentioned in the past, no fancy Latin term for the fallacy of "giving known liars the benefit of the doubt", but it is in my view a much greater source of avoidable error in the world. Audit is meant to protect us from this, which is why audit is so important.
If the basic concepts aren't so easy that you don't even have to think about them, you're not going to get the big concepts....You see, if you can't whiz through the easy stuff at 100 m.p.h., you're never gonna get the advanced stuff.
Comments
jacob
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~krallja
01 Nov 2006, 14:39 p.m.
"Everything I Know I Learned At A Very Expensive University"! Hahaha.