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by zeveb 2257 days ago
> internally, you can make inroads supporting stakeholders with evidence for their decisions!

The problem is that this can all too easily become motivated reasoning: one provides a stakeholder with support for the decision he already made. From his point of view, this is a valuable service, but it does the organisation a disservice: decisions should be made after considering the data, rather than consider only those data which support a decision.

Also, while ethical issues certainly arise, I think that Greyball is not a good example. Uber evading police enforcing the taxi monopoly is no more unethical than the Underground Railroad evading fugitive-slave agents. The taxi monopoly is itself unethical, and evading it increases the common good.