if you have a choice between doing x and not doing x, where there doesnt to be a immediately perceivable risk-benefit function associated with x -should you "just do it" or not do it. default-off seems like a pessimistic approach {risk minimization}.
default-on seems like a optimistic approach {benefit maximization}. i vote in favor of risk minimization!
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dude for me laziness is enough to decide to be default-off or on
i think it is usually the case that laziness and default-off {not doing x} are synonymous
unfortunately there are no such unbaised events like "x"..hence you seldom have to act out of default...
just to give you a concrete example for clarification {mundane but as previously mentioned elsewhere the dont let the frivolousness of the examples dilute the content of the post!}
consider eating/drinking preferences -- do you drink coffee/wine/coke or not? do you eat fellow creatures? i dont think theres a clear answer either way -- so are you default off or default on?
But why are you defining one of those actions as "on" and the other as "off"? I see no unique mapping.
i dont think i have the philosophical maturity (yet!) to ponder about the duality/oneness of states :-) .. so until then i shall have to be deal with a boolean world .. i imagine my mappings are intuitive {you can flip which is on/off and still ask the question right?}
i was talking abt laziness as causing default-off behavior so dont understand how they can be synonymous. i mean its not just risk minimization that is the prime motive for default-off behavior, stable objects just do not want to move from their equilibrium state until enough incentive is provided. for ur coffee/wine/tea example, i would decide not to be a wine-drinker just because i dont want to try anything new until i find a pretty girl holding a wineglass enticingly out to me. if u had asked me why i didnt drink wine b4 i wud have put pseud/senti fundaes but everything will be BS - i just was in a stable state not drinking wine and was too lazy to change it and justifications are always zero cost!
{you can flip which is on/off and still ask the question right?}
Yeah, that was my question. Since I can flip on/off and ask the question, and then when I've flipped on/off the question produces the opposite answer... the resulting action of "default-off" and "default-on" isn't uniquely defined. :P
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