From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 08:44:39 MST
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:24:47AM +0100, Kai Becker wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. M?rz 2002 09:49 schrieb Robert J. Bradbury:
> > While from time to time we may get dragged into the discussions
> > of the "soft" reality (e.g. economics or politics), there are
> > many of us who would seek out the relative certainty of current
> > physical laws.
>
> ... which is an euphemism for "trying to compensate the lack of social
> skills with something easier: inanimate objects". This is BTW the perfect
> description for pathological fetishism.
I think this is overly harsh. Lack of social skills isn't the same as
preferring certainty and regularity over uncertainty and wild
complexity. "Soft" subjects require a lot of work (and different
approaches) than "hard" subjects, which often means that you need a far
bigger knowledge base in them to say anything rational.
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