Comment by mannykannot
10 years ago
We should indeed recognize that we are all prone to the effect, but here you have replaced one sweeping generalization with another.
10 years ago
We should indeed recognize that we are all prone to the effect, but here you have replaced one sweeping generalization with another.
All positions have a political dimension into them. Real world is not computable - hence, opinions and beliefs dominate.
From a purely mathematical point of view, any political grouping is arbitrary and non-exact.
Until someone figures out a social calculus - in effect, an algorithm to compute what is good and what is evil - there really is no scientific high ground for thinking fascists are in absolute terms worse than 'computer geeks'.
What we can do - and improve on- is recognise we have different opinions and that's ok (although pathological behaviour which sometimes stems from certain political beliefs is not).
You beautifully illustrate Bertrand's point. Of course we can think geeks is better. We've got a ton of data to look at.
I would very much like to have this data :)
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