
Episode 328: Ask Noah Show 328
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Using Counterfactuals to Avoid Mistakes
Counterfactuals are a byproduct of hindsight, which is this mean that it makes assumptions based on your current knowledge. A counterfactual would be something like, I knew that this... I flipped this switch and the server crashed, and therefore you shouldn't have flipped that switch. Well, I didn't know that at the time. It's using what you know now to condemn something that you did in the past,. There was not necessarily any way that you would know the outcome of that result.
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