Comment by fsloth
10 years ago
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 :)
Its called the 20th century. Study it a bit.
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