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by rasteau 2782 days ago
> an unreasonable number of independent codebases must have identical bugs

Entertaining[0] badpun’s skepticism, it is not necessary they have identical bugs, only that their bugs yield similarly biased results.

For example, if a significant number of bugs are identified by their affect on the results, then bugs contributing to “wrong” results might be more likely to be identified and fixed.

[0] In the Aristotelian sense.