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Outside of computing: health and diet. Sure, you get some feedback, but you also can screw up things in some ridiculously slow-acting way. Pharma companies (are
by LaGrange 13y ago
Outside of computing: health and diet. Sure, you get some feedback, but you also can screw up things in some ridiculously slow-acting way. Pharma companies (are supposed to) monitor drug use for decades after introduction for the same reason.
Construction. Just build that chunk out of two steel beams instead of one, and witness it work perfectly until someone decides to throw a party on that balcony. Or witness your construction slowly turn itself from a perfectly normal tower to a major tourist attraction over the centuries.
Parenting. Things like sudden stimuli in early life have been linked to ADD, the way you do attachment can have tremendous consequences, and sometimes singular events you barely have any control over can have unpredictable consequences later in your life.
In fact, I'm tempted to say "life in general".
- jiggy2011 13y agoEconomics is also an excellent example. Nobody knows how to do it properly, even establishing direct cause and effect is basically impossible so we just iterate through progressively less broken solutions.
- BrainInAJar 13y ago> so we just iterate through progressively less broken solutions. And then get all ideological about it and iterate back to more broken solutions (Chicago school)
- jiggy2011 13y agoI wouldn't necessarily call Chicago school broken in it's entirety. I guess the whole idea that there are differing "schools" is probably an indicator in itself though.
- mindcrime 13y agoAnd then get all ideological about it and iterate back to more broken solutions (Chicago school) Or, even worse, Keynesianism.
- LaGrange 13y ago"progressively less broken solutions" Now that's a controversial statement if I've ever seen one.
- darkarmani 13y ago> health and diet. Sure, you get some feedback, but you also can screw up things in some ridiculously slow-acting way. This makes me think of the primal diet and coconut oil (saturated fat). The current arguments are that good saturated fats don't cause heart disease but (roughly) sugar does.