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> I believe what it is is that it seems to try to connect ideas that have no logical connection, but simply an emotional association. I see why you feel that.
by anoplus 8y ago
> I believe what it is is that it seems to try to connect ideas that have no logical connection, but simply an emotional association.
I see why you feel that. While it may sound like emotional associations, I find the topics still thought provoking.
For example:
> if it were efficient then most of us likely wouldn't have jobs.
This is exactly what I was thinking of this. I wonder to what extent does industry complexities are embraced as job creators.
I often feel something is fundamentally wrong in how society views job "market".
I said it before, I believe technology is meant to free us. To make jobs unnecessary. It may sound weird but I always wish to find one day my job is automated or becomes unnecessary.
I think true engineers keep things ridiculously simple for everyone. For the team and for the customers.
- sigi45 8y agoMy credo is to do my job so good that my company could fire me. I'm apparently still needed. :|
- beat 8y agoMine is that I build robots to do my job for me. I'm only interested in the parts of my job that can't be done by a robot.
- all2 8y agoI have a family member who worked in a factory that built electronics backplanes. His entire job, for eight hours a day, was to pick up a back plane from a chute, flip it over, and place it on a conveyor. I got so mad when I heard he was being paid to do that. I'm not mad that he was being paid, but that his time was being wasted. Give me a week, a pile of old junk, and a micro-controller and I could have a solution bashed together. I'm not saying it would be good, but at least it would be functional.
- dx87 8y agoI had a friend in high school with a similar job. His entire job consisted of getting a box of electronic components, plugging them into a test machine, and pressing a button. If a light on the test machine turned green, he put the part in one box, if it turned red, he put it in another box. Sad part is that it actually paid really well because working in the facility required a security clearance.
- yourbandsucks 8y agoIt's by design -- somebody spent a shotload on R&D making an idiot proof machine that still requires an idiot in the loop. Defense spending is the only politically acceptable "make work" in the USA.
- njarboe 8y agoThat and cost plus contracts. Does not really motivate companies to high efficiencies.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y ago> I think true engineers keep things ridiculously simple for everyone. For the team and for the customers. Oh dear. The future looks very dim indeed, as the species that complicates things will earn money and reproduce. Maybe this has been going on for a long time already.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoA contrasting opinion - human effort is finite, but increasing. If we continue to do things in the way they've been done, the total work produced by human effort will grow linearly with the total amount of human effort used. If we invest human effort in improving the way things are done, then not only will that effort be available for improving other things, all effort that would have been spent on the task that was improved may be put to other work. This allows us to grow the total work produced by human effort to grow exponentially with the total amount of human effort used.
- anoplus 8y agoAnd theoretically, when you reach a level where you have very few tasks left and very large available workforce, you can close the remaining "holes" by volunteering force alone.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoOk I get it, but the truth is probably somewhere in the middle of these two contrasting opinions.