“Bugs We May Be Missing”
summary
Tells concrete historical near-misses — the 1947 Dead Sea Scroll jars ignored for a year, Ramanujan’s letters dismissed — and names four actual failure modes: closed field, preconceived ideas, siloed communities, and pressure from wartime or deadlines. Explains how merchants misvalued artifacts, scholars misdated parchment by centuries, and reviewers failed to share knowledge. Recommends practical defenses: cross-domain checks, explicit unknowns, deliberate cognitive slack and experiments that invite surprise rather than confirm expectations.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:16No one knows what a discovery looks like
- 4:25The siege on Jerusalem and the impending war for Independence
- 5:02Are we so pressured to end a "test cycle" or "test set"
- 5:26Everybody is using the software us the testers, the customer support rep.
- 5:47Do we feel that we've tried these things so many times
- 6:02Are we expecting a predetermined and expected outcome?
