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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One of the things I am eternally grateful for is not going into a computer field. The more I find out about it, the more I see how inhumane it is, in the sense that it seemingly relies on exploitation, in the sense that it continually debases itself, never giving any consideration for any higher nature or higher thinking, and in the sense that it neither considers humanity - everything must be sacrificed to The Machine, for The Machine is always good, is sanctum lux suprema.

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