> My quarrel is with people who think you can treat human society like a deterministic computer system, and 'hack' it. Politics is hard! I'm going to nitpick h

> My quarrel is with people who think you can treat human society like a deterministic computer system, and 'hack' it. Politics is hard! I'm going to nitpick here and point out that if you want to avoid getting into stupid philosophical or definitional arguments you should probably say "predictable" or "easily predictable" or "practically predictable" or something along those lines rather than "deterministic".