Post #2437624
2026-04-27 11:44 UTC
@tomstoneham@dair-community.social @mxp@mastodon.acm.org hmmm… feels more like a potential problem with the method of the paper to me?
the conceptual core is the idea that all operations are reversible and symmetrical so do not give rise to order effects, but I don’t see how that could be the case?
unless the reverse operation is strictly “undo the specific Rembrandt lighting you added” removing Rembrandt lighting need not take you back to the same place, and there can then also legitimately be order effects….
and *if* the reverse operation is “undo the specific Rembrandt lighting you added” those “undos” would necessarily *only* work in reverse sequential order (by definition)
either way I don’t understand how the actual test lives up to the expressed constraints!
or am I missing something?
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@tomstoneham@dair-community.social 2026-04-27 11:57
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org You are right - I was spiralling off to bigger issues! As I read it - and methodologically this is way out of my area - there are two assumptions here: 1) Effective delegation requires delegated actions to be reversible 2) A minimum requirement for professional editing software is that it tracks changes and these can be individually reversed in any order I am far from sure that 1) is true, but 2) does seem reasonable. But I am out of my AoC here.