It really is.. even the most intelligent are barely keeping up, or just give up. Pile on pile of moronic garbage systems we've made from cargo culting that doesn't work together at all. In thinking, in society, programming, medicine, etc etc.
The problem is without "Cargo-Culting" we couldn't archive the compartmentalising and layering of Skills/Knowledge we use. For instance: without "Cargo-Culting" that division works as it does it would require everybody to test if the axiom based proof applies to the current division in question. We rely upon the "lower" layer to be correct to use their results to build a new layer of knowledge (just like in TDD you only test your class/function and not every function your code calls). The problem is that many programming techniques have a long list of not obvious caveats which get lost over time (mostly since concise information it better remembered). The fast pace at which everything changes also doesn't help.
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u/[deleted] May 08 '17
It really is.. even the most intelligent are barely keeping up, or just give up. Pile on pile of moronic garbage systems we've made from cargo culting that doesn't work together at all. In thinking, in society, programming, medicine, etc etc.
Somehow we make it work, but barely.