i mean, in general, it’s a lot easier to tell plausible-seeming stories of things going really poorly than actually high-likelihood stories of things going poorly. so the anecdata of it actually happening is worth a lot
sure, but the fact that that’s a really reasonable algorithm would not have saved the co-workers from the consequences of merging with the probably-predatory company, in the world where the company didn’t happen to have an employee with the perfect anecdote.
Or maybe there wouldn’t be a lot of worlds where the merger was totally fine and beneficial, because if you don’t have enough discernment to tell founded from unfounded fears, you’ll fall into adverse selection and probably get screwed over. (Some domains are like that, I don’t know if this one is.)
i mean, in general, it’s a lot easier to tell plausible-seeming stories of things going really poorly than actually high-likelihood stories of things going poorly. so the anecdata of it actually happening is worth a lot
sure, but the fact that that’s a really reasonable algorithm would not have saved the co-workers from the consequences of merging with the probably-predatory company, in the world where the company didn’t happen to have an employee with the perfect anecdote.
yeah, but there would be a lot of worlds where the merger was totally fine and beneficial where it fell through because people had unfounded fears
Or maybe there wouldn’t be a lot of worlds where the merger was totally fine and beneficial, because if you don’t have enough discernment to tell founded from unfounded fears, you’ll fall into adverse selection and probably get screwed over. (Some domains are like that, I don’t know if this one is.)