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You post on HN, people see it as a UI problem. Everything is tech, everything is tooling. But if you knew anything the history of science, you'd know that a sl
by lkdfjlkdfjlg 3y ago
You post on HN, people see it as a UI problem. Everything is tech, everything is tooling.
But if you knew anything the history of science, you'd know that a sloppy scientist with good tools gets you sloppy science, and a diligent scientist with bad tools might still get you as-good-as-possible science.
- LeifCarrotson 3y agoPeople aren't uniform, but they're all human. Improvements in tooling raise the baseline universally, making the "sloppy" scientists malfeasance obvious and helping the "diligent" scientist avoid inadvertent mistakes. Moralizing about humans being humans and wishing we were better gets us nowhere, but technology carries us into the future.
- lkdfjlkdfjlg 3y agoI'm not moralizing. There's no moral anywhere in what I wrote. Being sloppy isn't a moral judgement.