We design the delivery of social services without the benefit of insights from the people who receive that service.
This is the first text to provide a comprehensive rule-by-rule examination of the inception, interpretation and application of the SIAC Rules, written by practitioners with extensive experience in South East Asia arbitrations, and with the benefit of insights from the SIAC Secretariat.
Physics teaches us that rules dreamt up without the benefit of physical insight are nearly always wrong.
This is the man plus machine equation, which stands in contrast to what has been referred to as "artificial stupidity", defined as a computer completing tasks repetitively without the benefit of human insight and intervention.
Its jarring transition from adulation to measured disgust occurs without benefit of character insight.
Authorities in 1918 did not have the benefit of this insight, and in a number of cities lifted quarantines prematurely, with the same effect: multiple waves.
On the one hand you were not carbon copying your parents' lives but, on the other hand, people like Germaine Greer and Kate Millett and Betty Friedan had not yet given us the benefit of their insights into what marriage means to women as a going concern.
But as a child myself, without benefit of personal insights subsequently gleaned from more than a decade of talk therapy, I had been left cold by "Where the Wild Things Are". I don't really remember why.
Another former Goldman Sachs employee, Matt Levine, who is now a blogger for Dealbreaker, writes in The Wall Street Journal that much of Mr. Smith's argument "involves rehearsing scandals already litigated in court and the public square — without the benefit of new insights or inside knowledge".
Of course, each individual stock would still march to the beat of its own drum to some extent, but by owning hundreds of stocks with similar characteristics and weighting them appropriately you could capture the benefit of these insights.
