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So who makes the choices then? Who is the group that validates we are ready to try out a new idea?
by dbish 5y ago
So who makes the choices then? Who is the group that validates we are ready to try out a new idea?
- paulryanrogers 5y agoThat depends, how many resources are needed to try a new idea?
- eropple 5y agoI dunno, elected ones? That seems like a good start, rather than "one guy with a lot of money".
- dbish 5y agoThe career politicians are some of the very last people who should be making choices on what technological directions we should go as a society. You can watch any of the congressional hearings to see the complete lack of understanding of today’s technical landscape, let alone expecting them to determine where we go next. One day I hope to see actual technical people taking on high level elected positions and trying to change this, but for now it’s mostly lawyers who have spent their career trying to poll well and raise money.
- eropple 5y agoIf the world wanted Jeff Bezos to lead it, we would have elected him. Would we not? Who exactly is he to make megascale decisions for the rest of us?
- dbish 5y agoSomeone competent who has actually done something, unlike elected officials. Until there is a party that represents and has engineers and technical people as an every day part of their system, not a unique member among a sea of lawyers, we cannot allow politicians to stifle innovation and humanity’s ability to build for the future.
- eropple 5y ago"He made a logistics company, so he should be able to enact megascale experiments on people because why not?" Respectfully: this reads like the kind of post that would be written by a software developer who thinks being an expert in one thing makes them an expert in many. I was that person when I was young. I grew wiser. I hope you do, too.