IrisMar 15

My first article from Wellington: it's about some weird things I've noticed about tech people and their weird phobia of observation and empirical thinking.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech_empiricism_problem

Tech's empiricism problem | deadSimpleTech

The tech industry has extreme difficulty integrating information that doesn't have its source in an overtly rationalist process. In practice, this means that we tend to think that if you can't give a logical chain of deductions that proves that something is the case, your information is worthless. The issue with this is that day-to-day, in the tech world and outside of it, the vast bulk of the information we use to make decisions isn't this kind of information.

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Show threadChris Siebenmann
@iris_meredith Thank you for this. The rationality/empiricism split gives me a new good framing for computer security, for what I've in the past waved my hands about and called "math versus people", and now I feel like I understand how and why that split happens so often and so predictably.
Mar 15 at 4:13pmWeb