There are many edge-cases where a product can be viable without actually working.
There are many edge-cases where a product can be viable without actually working. They mostly come down to markets where the buyers are affected by principal-agent problems, and thus are willing to buy something that "doesn't work" for the principal's use-case, as long as it matches the incentives the principal has put upon them. For example, it's very easy to sell things to defense [sub]contractors. They're not spending their own money; and, in fact, the more money they hand out to others, the more they can consume as a margin. As long as what they get in return matches the strict definition of a few check-boxes, they can't be blamed.
Posted by derefr on May 19, 2015, 8:21 PM
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This is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
I wish there was something like LEAN for biology.
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial).
I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
I hate that I'm in deep enough to know what you mean.
The biggest problem with “AI” is that big corps are shoving it down our throats.
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There are many edge-cases where a product can be viable without actually working.
There are many edge-cases where a product can be viable without actually working. They mostly come down to markets where the buyers are affected by principal-agent problems, and thus are willing to buy something that "doesn't work" for the principal's use-case, as long as it matches the incentives the principal has put upon them. For example, it's very easy to sell things to defense [sub]contractors. They're not spending their own money; and, in fact, the more money they hand out to others, the more they can consume as a margin. As long as what they get in return matches the strict definition of a few check-boxes, they can't be blamed.
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