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I think that there is a great deal of trust implied by the actionably ambiguous statements she uses for AC. In an environment where trust between 'client' and development team is not ideal, I find that empowering the business owner to be more prescriptive with AC to be helpful.

In those situations I encourage AC of the form:

The payment form must contain fields for email address and name.

The payment form just match the visual mockup.

When I post a request with data X the response must be returned as JSON

It helps the engineers know what they business owner will test to validate completion.

The reaction to this seems awkwardly negative when contrasted with the praise that gushed for Amazon's Alexa products. I am having a hard time tracking why folks seem to feel so differently about google and Amazon having similar access to personal information.

I want to +1 this idea :)

I hope that anyone who incorporates this concept into their AI also measures the number of mistakes which become heuristics and biases in the AI. I would hypothesize that there is a link between the willingness or ability of the human mind to learn this way and the propensity to accept ( even DESIRE ) an answer to a question that, in truth, there is not adequate information to answer correctly.

This tendency leads to both helpful and dangerous heuristics and biases. From these biases humans build false beliefs that are damaging to themselves, their communities, and in the long run the species as a whole. If AI is about enabling humans to do more and better, should we not accept the failings of the current technologies in favor of assuring that they do not fall prey to the same biases and heuristics that lead humans to slaughter each other over the religious dogma of the past, destroy the environment with impunity, and accept ideas that 'feel' correct over being correct?

The author seems to ignore the fact that eastern traditions made just such a separation long before 550bce. It would have been more correct to note that this research was limited to western 'classical' thinkers.

I felt like this article actually begs a bigger question, why don't we tell each other how much we make? I get the sense that because we keep this so extremely private, it makes it so much easier for the class division between the wealthy, the 'middle class', and the poor to continue to grow.

If everyone truly understood just how much less the 'rich' people they know earned than any of the 700,000 or so folks in the global elite, would we still be having the same sort of disdain for progressive taxation?

For more about 'The Curse of the Gifted' see:

Mindset: by Carol S. Dweck.

Anecdotes aren't data, but I can say that having this 'curse' has been a huge challenge in my programming career.

>> But if that’s so, then why do most engineers, even the good ones, stay put at their full-time, salaried positions?

Or because you have to spend an egregious amount of time doing biz dev, and accounting, and software, and PM work, oh and don't forget about Wives, Families.