If I can successfully describe things that's the only win I can hope to achieve Curative steps I think take much longer. Science has had to deal with this stuf

If I can successfully describe things that's the only win I can hope to achieve Curative steps I think take much longer. Science has had to deal with this stuff constantly. In say medicine, there's always quackery spontaneously arising somewhere. It can take the form of well funded startups like theranos, mainstream established companies like purdue or what we usually think of, the supposed miracle cure person with the bad website and YouTube channel. Luckily medicine is continually creating a pretty solid culture that stamps that stuff out pretty quickly. Not as quick as we want, sure, but it's track record on the whole is getting better. Certainly not free from criticism but the people in medicine are clearly aware of the tendancies. Variation and a lack of agency over results appears to play a key role in susceptibility to these patterns. In computing we have for the most part not even acknowledged it's possible. One of the key promises of these patterns is more agency and less variation. It's what everyone is reaching for and this make it fertile ground for toxic institutions with fundamentally undeliverable promises. People chase the ideals hoping for the promises. Everyone gets screwed