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Speaking of politicians with CS degrees, Herman Cain has an MS in CS [1]. Not sure what my point is. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain http://en.wik

• andrewflnr 11y ago
  That might explain the tax thing. It makes sense to me that programming sensibilities and a passion for simple tax code would be related.
  • zachrose 11y ago
    To me the tax thing sounded like a deal you would get at a pizza restaurant.
• nickysielicki 11y ago
  Woah! What!? That is insane to me. Hermain Cain did his undergraduate in math and his masters in CS... and from good schools, no less. I wish I would have known this in 2012, I wonder how it would have made me feel about him, when watching debates. I don't remember much about my opinion of him, but I can definitely say it never crossed my mind that he would have this background.
  • chubot 11y ago
    Yeah politics is crazy. It makes smart people seem stupid. When you're a politician, I think you just have to talk in a way that is imprecise and which appeals to base instincts, which makes you seem stupid. But that is what works. Many politicians are brilliant polymaths and they all seem to have converged on the same behavior. I guess if you were to design a computer to be a politician, it would end up in the same spot. Its job would be to appeal to people of different backgrounds, who are irrational in different ways. (And don't think that highly educated people in Silicon Valley aren't irrational in their own way.)
  • digitalzombie 11y ago
    The only thing I remembered was he was pro business and crazy. He wasn't very competant at debate and his 9-9-9 plan sounds like some weird food commercial.