Unintended Consequences

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• External reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

• see,

  • conclusions répugnantes de l’utilitarisme,

outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

The invisible hand theorem is an example of the unintended consequences of agents acting in their self-interest

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types:

• Unexpected benefit: A positive unexpected benefit (also referred to as luck, serendipity or a windfall).
• Unexpected drawback: An unexpected detriment occurring in addition to the desired effect of the policy (e.g., while irrigation schemes provide people with water for agriculture, they can increase waterborne diseases that have devastating health effects, such as schistosomiasis).
• Perverse result: A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended (when an intended solution makes a problem worse

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

Notes linking here

• avoir l’intuition de faire les choses bien vs être convaincu de faire les choses bien
• Campbell’s law
• cobra effect
• pragmatisme, conséquentialisme
• should we create implementations that deals with anticipated features?
• Streisand effect
• unintended consequences of code coverage

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