On 28 July 2015 at 05:18, Ben Finney
Indeed, these non-rational ways of reaching a decision are essential to allow us to act with any kind of speed. Non-rational decision making is much faster, and necessarily will form the great majority of our decision making. Good!
What I'm making explicit is: those can't serve as *justification* for introducing a change. When a change is challenged (by someone to whom we are answerable), claiming that it just “felt right” is not enough.
But isn't the whole *point* of a non-rational decision (as you describe it) that you *can't* articulate your reasons for making that decision. You can't have your cake and eat it - are core devs allowed to make "non-rational" judgements or not? (In your view - in mine, they clearly are, and being required to justify those decisions after the fact is *not* acceptable). Paul