I don't know if I'm right.

• [/blu3mo-public/ I’m not good at interfering with others without knowing if I’m right](https://scrapbox.io/blu3mo-public/ I’m not good at interfering with others without knowing if I’m right).

What does “interfere” mean?

• For example, if a junior high school student came to me and said, “I’m not sure if I want to enter N High School or not, please decide.
  • Which do you think is better?” I won’t even answer
  • I have a good sense of N High School under my skin, but I’m not sure enough to influence other people’s high school experience.
    • I don’t think I’ll ever do this, no matter how detailed I get.
    • Not feeling “well-informed enough” even about the high school you left
    • Oh, I see, the question “Which is better, option A or option B?” can only be answered by someone who has experienced both.

therefore

A theory that I am not comfortable taking the risk of interfering with others in a situation where I am not sure if I am right. I’m sympathetic to this.

But I don’t share the first half, “I’m not very good at confidently disseminating information.”

• This block, I found it difficult to make sense of what you were saying in the first place.
  • [/blu3mo-public/I’m not good at interfering with others without knowing if I’m right#60c5f37612862600003a0b36](https://scrapbox.io/blu3mo-public/I’m not good at interfering with others without knowing if I’m right#60c5f37612862600003a0b36)
• I read the link /blu3mo-public/ “a society that benefits those who can transmit information with confidence” and interpreted it to mean “I am not good at transmitting information with confidence”.

So, this is a mix of different concepts on a single page?

• Or, it appears to be a different concept due to Nishio’s belief that information dissemination and interference are two different things.

Why am I able to “confidently disseminate information”?

• No? Are you confident in the information you’re giving out?
  • It’s like the parameter of confidence was never there in the first place…
  • When I send something out, I ask myself, “Am I confident in this?” I don’t think I think about it…
• For example, let’s say you run a certain code and get a certain error message.
  • The “I got this error message when I executed this code” is an observed fact.
    • It doesn’t matter if you’re confident or not.
    • If you think the latter is better than the world in which it is not shared versus the world in which it is shared, then publish it.
    • When it comes to the behavior of code like this, it’s usually a matter of choosing to publish it without any room for worry.
• When you write this code to avoid an error
  • If that’s true, then confidence is still irrelevant.
  • Don’t know if it’s the best way.
  • I don’t know if it works in other users’ environments.
  • If it solved my problem, then “this solved my problem” is true.
• “This is the kind of design that would be good.”
  • Example: public division.
  • You’re obviously not sure about this, hence the “shouldn’t the output be in…” ending.
  • This is ultimately about how much you trust the literacy of your readers.
    • Even if someone else’s article affirms, for example, that you should enter, it is clear that this is an interpretation, not a fact.
    • So even if it is written in such a way, I would interpret it as “this is a statement that the author thought so”.
    • So the way it is written also comes down to “a statement of fact that ‘I thought this’“.
• I suppose it could be interpreted this way.”
  • Example: software abuse.
  • I think it’s the sharing of the fact that “I thought, ‘This is how it could be interpreted.
• in other words
  • Q: Why am I able to “confidently disseminate information”?
  • Implicit in this question Q is the assumption P that confidence is necessary to disseminate information.
  • In Nishio’s subjective view, “P is false” because he transmits information even if he is not confident about it.
  • But I imagine other people’s viewpoints would say, “That’s because Nishio is so confident.”
  • Then the next question is, “What is confidence (in oneself)?” is the question?

I’m getting sleepy, so I’ll call it a day.

• correctness
• I first put this link here because I thought it was going to be about the definition of correctness, but so far it hasn’t come down to that yet.

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