Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Andeddu
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 12:38:00

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Andeddu to Moondog on Fri Aug 21 2020 02:54 am

 >   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 workin
 >  > in IT in the nuclear power industry, I heard of a concept called
 >  > "groupthink."  It's actually a bad thing, because everyone thinks alike, 
 >  > will blindly accept an "experts" opinion as gospel without considering an
 >  > alternative outcome.  A good example of this in the scene in Apollo 13 wh
 >  > some figures the only way to get the astronauts home is if they can keep
 >  > their power consumption below a seemingly impossible threshold.  the chie
 >  > engineer says that's impossible, and his folks accept it.  It takes someo
 >  > 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 implemen
 >  > 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 wh
 > ideas can be assessed. The problem with too many ideas is that they can move
 > 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 
 > 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 o
 > completely alter the course of the civilisation.
 > 
A society that is too slow to react to change can also be a detriment.

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