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Sara Robinson's avatar

Lifelong Left Coaster here, currently at home in Seattle. We have wonderful food in Seattle. But I don't go to Seattle for BBQ any more than I'd go to Kansas City for a cedar-planked maple-crusted coho salmon fillet. Rigtht-thinking people do not do such things.

When we get to Texas, there's often a detour to Lockhart. (Austin's also perfectly adequate.) We buy Black's bones by the kilo, and feast on them for days. Memphis? Yeah. Never had KC, but Ted Lasso's not wrong about much.

But you've made a great case for why numbers always need to be accompanied by a knowledgeable human -- a need that's only likely to accelerate as AI takes over. Someone somewhere in the process need to be able to hold up and say: That just ain't right.

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Richard Careaga's avatar

Ever notice that confirmation bias sculpts the reaction to stupid results? And sometimes it’s the bias that the process yields truth infallibly.

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