The main reason true (but not necessarily “good”) engineers flail so badly and turn into crackpots when they try to do philosophy or physics is they have an agency drive hardwired into firmware so strongly they cannot help but see the world exclusively in terms of ways it is “wrong” and can be “improved”

Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

The shift from 

“it is inefficient” 

to 

“it is”

either melts or magnifies a mind 

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