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It bothers me less now that I know how much of science is absolute bullshit.
Engineers are pretty much the only non-bullshitters. The thing either does what you intended or it doesn't.
Engineers are pretty much the only non-bullshitters. The thing either does what you intended or it doesn't.
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Once again, the difference between reason and empiricism tilts in favour of reality.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:15 ammuch of science is absolute bullshit.
Engineers are pretty much the only non-bullshitters.
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There are ways of talking about art that isn’t a bunch of bollocks. Art should primarily appeal to human emotions and discussions should revolve around that subject, other than perhaps technique. My experience in reading and writing about art is that a lot of artists are bad at talking about their work.
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I don't agree with the proposition that any appreciable portion of science is 'absolute bullshit,' but if it comforts you somehow to think so, OK.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:15 amIt bothers me less now that I know how much of science is absolute bullshit.
In their own fields of expertise, perhaps. On the other hand there's that pesky Salem Hypothesis.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:15 amEngineers are pretty much the only non-bullshitters. The thing either does what you intended or it doesn't.
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That was great. I enjoyed the comments too.
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Did you get as far as the comment from Bruce Salem himself?
When I proposed the so-called Salem Hypothesis, it was to address the claims of a particular Christian fundamentalist who was an EE at TeKtronix in Beaverton Or, that his engineering training gave him enough expertise to weigh in on the creation-evolution debate on an equal footing with someone like myself who actually had training in geology and biology. This was in 1988, way back before the intelligent design ruse or the emergence of Islamic extremists. I argued that engineering can leave one unprepared to be competent in matters of science in a broad way, that bias and bigotry can easily cloud one's opinions because the the concentration required in many engineering tasks, and because engineering need not entail full scientific method, especially suspension of judgement against unknowns. What the discussion above suggests is that the personality traits that engineers can possess, along with incomplete training, can lead to errors in judgement that lead to scientifically untenable beliefs. I have experienced this many times. There is no better example of this than the beliefs about race and innate learning ability of Blacks expressed by William Shockley in the 1970's. Shockley invented the transister, won a Nobel Prize for that but was probably mistaken in his views about intelligence and race. The traits of engineers that get them into the most trouble, and it is why a high percentage of them are Libertarians, is that they approach stress in "fix-it" mode and go off half-cocked. The critical thought necessary for main-stream science tends to beat this rush to simple answers out of people more broadly trained in science, or used to having to suspend judgement when information is incomplete. This is not to say that all engineers have this problem. There are many people in engineering whose work is indistinguishable for good science, just as rigorous, but there are people who earned the degree who go beyond the limits of their own expertise, and it shows.
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Are you sure a certain Dutchman of Scottish origin didn’t write it;
“Then again, the same mindset that drives someone to engineering could predispose them to nutty ideas like creationism. Or Islamic terrorism”.
“Then again, the same mindset that drives someone to engineering could predispose them to nutty ideas like creationism. Or Islamic terrorism”.
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It's good Rum! I've always just thought engineers are assholes. I had no idea other people agreed with me, much less that someone had attempted to explain the "engineer problem"!
I was trolling with the science comment btw. It would be very difficult to make the case that a significant part of science is bullshit. The closest we could get to that is to say that it turns out to be wrong. But this is only superficially like the wrongness of bullshitting artsy talk.
I was trolling with the science comment btw. It would be very difficult to make the case that a significant part of science is bullshit. The closest we could get to that is to say that it turns out to be wrong. But this is only superficially like the wrongness of bullshitting artsy talk.
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I don't know if Robert Heinlein was representative of the engineer caste, but he certainly was an arsehole.
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Well quite. There is a ‘scientific method’ after all, and while it might not always be applied rigorously, you can follow a process and if it works, repeat it.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:46 pmIt's good Rum! I've always just thought engineers are assholes. I had no idea other people agreed with me, much less that someone had attempted to explain the "engineer problem"!
I was trolling with the science comment btw. It would be very difficult to make the case that a significant part of science is bullshit. The closest we could get to that is to say that it turns out to be wrong. But this is only superficially like the wrongness of bullshitting artsy talk.
With art, anything goes. That’s fine as long as the artist or commentary doesn’t expound utter bullshit. I suppose even then it doesn’t actually matter. It keeps quite a lot of academics busy and out of trouble I suppose.
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Re, engineering belief and creationism. I’m not sure if this was true of other engineering schools but at U of Waterloo they had a great chain of being starting at God working its way through each engineering discipline and then realted discplines all the way down to slime. There is definitely an authoritarian hierarchical mindset which lends itself well to this hypothesis.L'Emmerdeur wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 3:33 pmI don't agree with the proposition that any appreciable portion of science is 'absolute bullshit,' but if it comforts you somehow to think so, OK.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:15 amIt bothers me less now that I know how much of science is absolute bullshit.
In their own fields of expertise, perhaps. On the other hand there's that pesky Salem Hypothesis.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:15 amEngineers are pretty much the only non-bullshitters. The thing either does what you intended or it doesn't.
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I just keep thinking of the comments made by Stephen Fry re: empiricism vs rationality.
Protip - rationality sounds better all the time.
Protip - rationality sounds better all the time.
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Clearly it challenges your preconceived worldview, and opens up a conversation that disturbs the milieu within the paradigm of experiential stasis.
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rEv needs to deconstruct his narrative...
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