Occam's Hammock (new favorite idea of Slacker Staff)
Oct 26, 2018 13:16:17 GMT -5
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Post by nyline on Oct 26, 2018 13:16:17 GMT -5
My slacker staff recently came upon an idea that they have embraced passionately -- and when speaking of my slacker staff, that's saying a lot (because movement and exertion of any kind are, in my experience, foreign concepts to them.) So, although what follows is not, strictly speaking, volleyball-related, I acquiesced to their fervent pleas and agreed o start a thread on the topic.
Most of you are probably familiar with Occam's Razor: the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. A poster on VT offered this variant, which the poster referred to as Occam's Hammock: Never credit to malice that which could more easily be explained by sloth.
The notion of Occam's Hammock was raised in the context of inept student broadcasters for volleyball matches. I think we all can agree that those young men and women sometimes are less skilled and knowledgeable than we might wish (they are, after all, not professionals), but few, if any of us would attribute that lack of skill, knowledge and experience to malice. On the other hand, my slacker staff has spent years perfecting the art of doing nothing. Occam's Hammock may apply to their practiced inertia, but a part of me still views malice as the real culprit. They are slackers, granted, but that does not rule out the possibility that they are conniving and sly slackers. Then again, over the years they have proved themselves to be harmless in their near-perpetual stasis, so perhaps I am too quick to judge.
Most of you are probably familiar with Occam's Razor: the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. A poster on VT offered this variant, which the poster referred to as Occam's Hammock: Never credit to malice that which could more easily be explained by sloth.
The notion of Occam's Hammock was raised in the context of inept student broadcasters for volleyball matches. I think we all can agree that those young men and women sometimes are less skilled and knowledgeable than we might wish (they are, after all, not professionals), but few, if any of us would attribute that lack of skill, knowledge and experience to malice. On the other hand, my slacker staff has spent years perfecting the art of doing nothing. Occam's Hammock may apply to their practiced inertia, but a part of me still views malice as the real culprit. They are slackers, granted, but that does not rule out the possibility that they are conniving and sly slackers. Then again, over the years they have proved themselves to be harmless in their near-perpetual stasis, so perhaps I am too quick to judge.
