On 11/24/2010 10:57 AM, Kevin Wright wrote:
In any case, those silly comparisons about quantities of dead
people make me feel relieved that the world is not governed by
engineers or computer scientists.
Why? Surely the world would be a better place, by any conceivable
metric, if it was run on evidence-based decisions calculated to
globally maximise long-term quality of life. Instead of being run on
fear-mongering and political posturing.
It was what I thought twenty years ago. Then I learned how engineers and
computer scientists can easily lose the focus. We are fit to solve
problems that, in a global scale, are small, isolated and well defined,
while politics deals with large, interconnected and fuzzily defined
problems. BTW, fear-mongering and political posturing are part of the
engineering world too.
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