> The problem is that the complexity of systems is growing beyond the capacity for people to understand in the first place This is the argument, but it's a que

> The problem is that the complexity of systems is growing beyond the capacity for people to understand in the first place This is the argument, but it's a question whether this is a choice that we are making as a society and an industry, to not understand, and to choose technologies that abrogate the possibility of understanding, or to choose understanding, and focus all our efforts on enhancing the ability of understanding. To build bicycles for the mind, or bricks for software engineers to stack. It's a keen observation about the people who like certainty, but as systems get bigger these people can also often reason mathematically even about the uncertain cases, the statistical terms as you put it. There are even more people who would rather navigate politics than mathematics. Internal politics becomes more important in relative terms if everybody can agree that understanding the fundamentals is a waste of time.