On May 18, 2009 00:40:25 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009, Jared Kells wrote: > > She said it's an important feature for her. With no prompting she > > explained that it is just an estimate based on what she is doing now. > > When reading email the time will be more then if she was watching a > > movie. > > i have to ask: is it really not apparent that this is something i both > acknowledge and agree with?
no, it's not. you agree that it's good in concept, but disagree that it's good in practice. I believe his example was meant to illustrate that (at least for some users) it's good in practice as well as in theory. > > at this point there are two rather different conversations happening here: > one about whether it's a good feature in concept and one about whether it's > possible to deliver that feature in a way that doesn't diminish things > through the side effects of delivering untrustworthy information. so it seems where we disagree is whether inaccurate information (which users are aware is inaccurate) is better than no information. -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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