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Why exactly should we "exercise restraint in becoming too reductionistic on complicated engineering problems"?

• samtho 3y ago
  When we reduce complicated problems down to inaccurate trivial ones by stripping out important details and nuance, we end up with a caricature of the original - one that easily devolves into a to strawman argument to serve someone’s point. This new representation masquerading as the original can carry the same weight as the one it was based off of.
  • 23B1 3y ago
    This is spreadsheet brain thinking – likely the same MDD dorks used to justify cutting corners. There's no nuance when people are dying. None whatsoever. If someone can't agree to that sort of black-and-white thinking, probably they should be working in an industry where innocent lives aren't dependent upon sound decision-making.