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It's not ableist to take issue with people who exclude qualitative considerations, especially considerations of human subjective experience and existence, from
by logicprog 3y ago
It's not ableist to take issue with people who exclude qualitative considerations, especially considerations of human subjective experience and existence, from their reasoning. That's a very big and often dangerous flaw in reasoning that can cause a lot of problems, and that doesn't change even if autistic people have more of a tendency to fall into that sort of mistake. That just means it's a cognitive bias that's common for us just, like other cognitive biases (like e.g. the bandwagon fallacy) are more common for non-autistic people.
Here's my definition btw:
> it is a specific subset of the people who work in tech whose attitude towards tech is characterized by a sort of brash, prideful belief that you can solve everything with technological solutions and that the human (qualitative) factor of things just isn't relevant — or is even harmful because it's "unquantifiable" and it needs to be specifically perfected out of our considerations.