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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Do you want the Engineers that are designing that car to program the solution? I've worked with Engineers for 25 years and both of my parents were Engineers. While they are great at Engineering I wouldn't want them being the one's to program that decision in the car.
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You didn't actually solve the problem, though. I don't want an English Lit major to program that decision into the car, either. Frankly there is no good solution to that, but it's realistically just going to be a political problem that's dealt with through regulation, just as risks are allocated in every industry subject to government regulation.
Anyway how did this conversation get focused on engineers? No one said we should just be producing engineers, or whether engineers should be making all the important decisions. There will still be plenty of people taking arts courses regardless of whether this policy is enacted. It's just a question of tax policy and where those dollars are best spent.
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
In general, I disagree.
You shouldn't get credit for being forced to do a 180 on a decision that was stupid to begin with and should never have been made.
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Read my post again. I didn't say you get credit for doing the 180. I said you get credit for
being the sort of person who is going to consider whether a policy choice was a mistake and reverse course, rather than trying to justify your error and act like it wasn't a mistake. If you assume that whoever we elect, they're going to make at least some decisions that don't work out as planned, I want my politician to fall into the "is willing to reverse course" category.