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 threadHenri
Great piece! This lays out why I like reverse-engineering so much: it's basically a perfect setup for inductive/empirical research. And it could help explain why many coders are so resistant to developing security outlooks.
I'm also curious how you square deductive mode worship with the actual practice of say mathematics, which famously is an empirical/intuitive creative process where deductive reasoning is largely left to the "boring" part of actually writing down proofs. A programming parallel is the way "taste" is valued.
Mar 16 at 12:35amWeb
Show threadIrisMar 16
@unusual_thoughts Oh, that's easy: nobody gives a shit about what practicing mathematicians actually say or do.