"The Reasonable Person Principle is part of the unwritten culture of CMU computer science" Hmmmm.
Looks quite written to me...I just read it.
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#12How is 'reasonable' different from 'rational'? And don't both these terms beg the question of ultimate ends and/or values?
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#13I can't tell if this is satire.
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#14How is 'reasonable' different from 'rational'? And don't both these terms beg the question of ultimate ends and/or values?
A reasonable person gets you Ted Danson. A rational person is Larry David.
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#15How is 'reasonable' different from 'rational'? And don't both these terms beg the question of ultimate ends and/or values?
I don't know, does rational give way to pragmatic?
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#16So, what do you do if you find someone else unreasonable and private arguments do not resolve the conflict?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's quite literally written.
I meant the "Hmmm" - it's a useless comment unless there's some deeper context to having an unwritten culture that I am missing.
I think rboyd (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670491) was suggesting that Isamu's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670371) "Hmmmm" is simply a witty comment on the idea that this thing that is written is part of an unwritten culture, rather than any judgement regarding the existence or value of such a culture.
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#18So, what do you do if you find someone else unreasonable and private arguments do not resolve the conflict?
You either disagree and walk away, or (as the page says) you get a third person involved.
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#19Expecting everyone within a group to be reasonable is not reasonable.