Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Moondog
From : Andeddu
Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 02:54:14

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Aug 19 2020 10:12 am

 > However it's that diversity that promotes change and growth.  When working
 > in IT in the nuclear power industry, I heard of a concept called
 > "groupthink."  It's actually a bad thing, because everyone thinks alike, and
 > will blindly accept an "experts" opinion as gospel without considering an
 > alternative outcome.  A good example of this in the scene in Apollo 13 where
 > some figures the only way to get the astronauts home is if they can keep
 > their power consumption below a seemingly impossible threshold.  the chief
 > engineer says that's impossible, and his folks accept it.  It takes someone
 > outside his authority to apply a questioning attitude to prove they were
 > wrong.
 >
 > Back in the 90's I took a quality workgroup training course that implemented
 > bringing in an outside person into a discussion to question the group why
 > they can't see the forest from within the trees.  In the forum, all were
 > considered equals in opinion.  Of course, the outside guy was always a
 > manger of higher rank, and acted as an authoritarian rather than a
 > moderator.  Groupthink killed quality improvement.

I agree that groupthink is bad and that there has to be an open discourse where
ideas can be assessed. The problem with too many ideas is that they can move a
civilisaiton/society down the path of destruction. If a successful society
accepts that it's imperfect, and implements 10,50,100 or 1000 new acts of
legislation or regulation, each act being sensible and progressive, you may end
up with a worse society than you started with.

A socially engineered society is one which will do anything to preserve the
rules presently in place, because too many changes could topple the regime or
completely alter the course of the civilisation.

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