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How is their plan autistic? Hanke and Henry seem idealistic, academic, and likely lack a solid understanding of the sociological consequences that make their pl
by Freak_NL 11y ago
How is their plan autistic? Hanke and Henry seem idealistic, academic, and likely lack a solid understanding of the sociological consequences that make their plan utterly unattainable, but they don't strike me as sufferers of autism.
- pron 11y agoI didn't mean to be taken so literally. I simply meant the tendency to "simplify" the world by reducing away the complexity of people and their concerns and focusing on numbers as if they mean anything in isolation. It just struck me as a very extreme case of what I call "spherical cow social science/politics", which is very attractive to some types. And the problem with their plan isn't that it's unattainable, but that it would cause much more harm than good, because their laser focus has led them to try optimize the wrong things at the expense of many right things.