are you saying you've never encountered entire problem spaces shut down with simplistic reasoning about technical solns?
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Not really. Much more often, I've seen technologists go into insane detail about the complexities of things.
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Replying to @CShentrup @wycats
This is the problem I was originally commenting on; also, by implication: nerd attempts to “save the world”.
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viz: the outsized role technologists have assigned themselves for determining the future welfare...
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…compared to the miniscule responsibility they’ll accept for their own impact (long list of examples)
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Really not saying much more than Barack Obama just did, just drilling down: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/president-obama-explains-why-you-cant-run-the-u-s-like-a-startup/ …
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The broader point is technologist impulse to decisive solutions when gradualist approaches better suited.
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What "technologist impulse"? Where are you getting these ideas/generalizations?
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Replying to @CShentrup @wycats
I’m willing to further explain my perspective but unwilling to pick it apart word by word.
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I still think you're focused an a particular stereotype within tech. As a group, we're _less_ simplistic than average.
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I don't disagree that there are a surprising amount of nuanced folks. Also a surprising amount of the opposite.
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both can be true at the same time.
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