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> I think a lot of computer scientists assume that their model of the world (binary logic) is the most abstracted version possible This is a giant problem with
by tivert 3y ago
> I think a lot of computer scientists assume that their model of the world (binary logic) is the most abstracted version possible
This is a giant problem with software engineers, which makes us quite obnoxious.
We have mental models that work for understanding computers, and then go misapply that those models to everything else in the universe. Frequently that turns into arrogance, by insisting the right way to think anything is in computer-terms, and every other way of thinking is inferior and wrong. Then you get stuff like Engineer's Disease, where you get some software guy lecturing actual experts in other fields about how they're doing it all wrong, or declaring alien fields to be nonsense because they're different.