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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
and the problem is it's convincing.
i suggested the basic structure, right? so when it tells me it's great and it's not, that's confirmation bias, one of the hardest traps to avoid.
if i didn't take an inherent mistrust of algorithms (even the ones i'm designing!) and want to be sure i understand why they are correct, i would have fallen for this. i spent ages trying to pick the hole on the basis of my gut and the cod kept telling me everything was fine until i fingered the exact problem.
like i am very fucking aware i am in fact a human being subject to cognitive biases like anyone else and this is just a machine that actively triggers them to appear more convincing!