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if curiosity > pain avoidance: engineer

• noncoml 12d ago
  I see. Sounds more like a scientist to me :)
  • mitxela 11d ago
    yeah that's definitely scientist. The two are easy to conflate since they both deal with manipulating reality to make it do things we want, but science focuses on understanding the reality itself and engineering focuses on getting it to do what we want.
    • ipsod 11d ago
      Still seems like the same driving force of curiosity behind both, but one wants to know and one wants to do. It's like yin and yang, like two sides of the same coin. I'm into engineering because I want to create what's never existed. Science is more about discovering what already exists.
      • mitxela 10d ago
        For sure, yin and yang. As a kid, I didn't understand the difference between Dewey Decimal 500s and 600s.