It’s a failure of ease of verification: because I don’t know what to pay attention to, I can’t easily notice the ways in which the product is bad.
Is there an opposite of the “failure of ease of verification” that would add up to 100% if you would categorize the whole of reality into 1 of these 2 categories? Say in a simulation, if you attributed every piece of computation into following 2 categories, how much of the world can be “explained by” each category?
make sure stuff “works at all and is easy to verify whether it works at all”
stuff that works must be “potentially better in ways that are hard to verify”
Examples:
when you press the “K” key on your keyboard for 1000 times, it will launch nuclear missiles ~0 times and the K key will “be pressed” ~999 times
when your monitor shows you the pixels for a glyph of the letter “K” 1000 times, it will represent the planet Jupyter ~0 times and “there will be” the letter K ~999 times
in each page in your stack of books, the character U+0000 is visible ~0 times and the letter A, say ~123 times
tupperware was your own purchase and not gifted by a family member? I mean, for which exact feature would you pay how much more?!?
you can tell whether a water bottle contains potable water and not sulfuric acid
carpet, desk, and chair haven’t spontaneously combusted (yet?)
the refrigerator doesn’t produce any black holes
(flip-flops are evil and I don’t want to jinx any sinks at this time)
Is there an opposite of the “failure of ease of verification” that would add up to 100% if you would categorize the whole of reality into 1 of these 2 categories? Say in a simulation, if you attributed every piece of computation into following 2 categories, how much of the world can be “explained by” each category?
make sure stuff “works at all and is easy to verify whether it works at all”
stuff that works must be “potentially better in ways that are hard to verify”
Examples:
when you press the “K” key on your keyboard for 1000 times, it will launch nuclear missiles ~0 times and the K key will “be pressed” ~999 times
when your monitor shows you the pixels for a glyph of the letter “K” 1000 times, it will represent the planet Jupyter ~0 times and “there will be” the letter K ~999 times
in each page in your stack of books, the character U+0000 is visible ~0 times and the letter A, say ~123 times
tupperware was your own purchase and not gifted by a family member? I mean, for which exact feature would you pay how much more?!?
you can tell whether a water bottle contains potable water and not sulfuric acid
carpet, desk, and chair haven’t spontaneously combusted (yet?)
the refrigerator doesn’t produce any black holes
(flip-flops are evil and I don’t want to jinx any sinks at this time)