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Computer scientists should treat history like civil engineering or physics treat their histories. These are subjects that make objective progress. Art or phil
by eru 1y ago
Computer scientists should treat history like civil engineering or physics treat their histories. These are subjects that make objective progress.
Art or philosophy might or might not make progress. No one can say for sure. They are bad role models.
- rkagerer 1y ago"These are subjects that make objective progress." As opposed to ours, where we're fond of subjective regression. ;-P
- wnc3141 1y agoAt least for history of economics, I think it's harder to really grasp modern economic thinking without considering the layers it's built upon, the context ideas were developed within etc...
- eru 1y agoThat's probably true for macro-economics. Alas that's also the part where people disagree about whether it made objective progress. Micro-economics is much more approachable with experiments etc. Btw, I didn't suggest to completely disregard history. Physics and civil engineering don't completely disregard their histories, either. But they also don't engage in constant navel gazing and re-hashing like a good chunk of the philosophers do.