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two minor issues
Nov. 16th, 2005 08:43 amIntelligent design
The idea that, having in mind the whole structure of a large system, one can create it, faultlessly, according to design, and it would function as designed (that's the idea of the Big Architects designing Big Things like those on which US DoD had recently wasted $1G without any tangible results), that idea has proven many times to be impossible to implement. Large things grow by themselves. Cities, languages, internet, etc. Detailed intelligent design is impossible.
Specifically, if you believe in intelligent design, compare the complexity of programming a couple of idiots not to eat an fruit from a tree, and designing the idiots themselves so that they could tell a fruit from a tree, could walk vertically, could digest food, could run mitosis in parallel in trillions (quintillions) of body cells...
racial/gender bias
Some people think that in US there is a lot of bias towards female and black engineers, that's why there are not so many. How come there are so many Indian and Chinese female software engineers? "Because they come and take white males' jobs", that's why. Interesting, hmm...
The idea that, having in mind the whole structure of a large system, one can create it, faultlessly, according to design, and it would function as designed (that's the idea of the Big Architects designing Big Things like those on which US DoD had recently wasted $1G without any tangible results), that idea has proven many times to be impossible to implement. Large things grow by themselves. Cities, languages, internet, etc. Detailed intelligent design is impossible.
Specifically, if you believe in intelligent design, compare the complexity of programming a couple of idiots not to eat an fruit from a tree, and designing the idiots themselves so that they could tell a fruit from a tree, could walk vertically, could digest food, could run mitosis in parallel in trillions (quintillions) of body cells...
racial/gender bias
Some people think that in US there is a lot of bias towards female and black engineers, that's why there are not so many. How come there are so many Indian and Chinese female software engineers? "Because they come and take white males' jobs", that's why. Interesting, hmm...
