Gregory's Server@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara there must be a name for this logical fallacy. X worked to eliminate Y so we don’t need X anymore
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@bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara so roughly speaking "we should take system-critical software flaws like the y2k bug seriously" is counterperformative in this sense because it caused everything to get fixed, so unfortunately then we have this situation where people aren't taking future things like this seriously  @bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara a lot of libertarians have come out of CUNY, U Virginia, U Texas, etc.... Same energy  |
@bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara Donald MacKenzie of U. Edinburgh has done some sociology work on beliefs/models that are "counterperformative" if they tend to encourage action whose impact tends to (apparently) undermine their own assumptions/preconditions
He's written some stuff about the histories of formal software verification and financial markets as models that encourage action that undermines/reinforces their own assumptions, respectively