On Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:33:57 UTC+2, Odd Bodkin wrote:
> Engr. Ravi <
ravic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
> >
> > String theory is without a doubt the best example of the sunk-cost
> > fallacy in action, and indeed is rapidly on its way into the behavioral
> > economics textbooks and history books. And they say physicists are the
> > most rational of human beings, indeed super-rational, yeah right!
>
> Hold on, hoss. Who are the “they” that say physicists are super-rational?
> Physicists are just another profession, requiring no more brains than
> finance or law or airline piloting or woodworking.
> And yes, the whole point of fundamental science is to guess wrong and then
> iterate to better. It’s how the field works. The first dinosaur skeleton
> was assembled completely wrong by paleontologists. At one time, astronomers
> thought there was one galaxy.
>
> I realize that the idea of paying for people to make mistakes in the
> process of learning is probably just foreign to an engineer, for whom
> making mistakes is not tolerated.
>
> This is one reason engineers should not try to do physics. Their minds just
> don’t work that way, and that is completely ok.
how science works. Their minds just don’t work that way;