july

The rational perspective, and science in general has a tendency to focus on the problem, and shut everything else out. I think this makes sense, if you were learning how to code and you had to question what a "variable" meant in life instead of just accepting it, it would take too long. 

That being said...

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks /july /faust

Because all that progress, even if you come up with it -- it can't just be applied in a vacuum, you have to understand who we are, where we are going, what our needs our, what are dreams our, what we love, what we care about, what we would die for - and only then it becomes easier to build things that apply that tech

Forgetting this is like starting a restaurant, and being obsessed so much with how to run a restaurant, and how to optimize running a restaurant that you forget to actually serve food, and that you need to make food that is good, and edible. Progress, in some ways requires us to understand our needs, who we are

I think that one should take a stand, somewhere, on something. My stand: it's important to remember that rational perspective and science, and technology and progress - it's a means, not an end. The end is the improvement of quality of life, and betterment of humanity as a whole. The means is a way to get to that end

Science alone cannot provide an imperative, nor values or direction.

Science and mathematics are both projects of philosophy. By contrast, engineering has its roots in trade and thereby enjoys a much deeper connection to our story as a species.

The lamp post thing aside. This is a hill I'm ready to die on; if we confuse means and end - we are doomed. Quality of life = goal.