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by 481092 2580 days ago
This reminds me of Robert Sapolsky's lectures, brilliant and easy to find on youtube, where he mentions the most optimal or successful form of communication between parties where you may have miscommunication or misunderstanding is generally tit-for-tat with some amount of forgiveness. Seems analogous to various digital communication protocols where you use parity bits and if an error occurs, you say 'ok, that didn't compute well' and just try to initialize again.