On 8/17/13 3:47 PM, glen wrote:
But you're ignoring the fact that these people often do have lives
outside their work. And those lives often interfere, cognitively, with
their more robot-like optimization methods within their work.
For some reason I remember this random instant of my life. Years ago,
over a busy weekend, I got an e-mail from a collaborator as a deadline
approached. The individual indicated that they were stepping away to
stop by church. It wasn't a terribly important project, at least for
me. So, instead of reviewing my heuristics for estimating the
priorities of my collaborators, I reflected on how social systems grow
up around the frailties of the community and concluded (something like)
that social systems can just as well reinforce the robot-like
optimization methods as they stigmatize them.
Here's a fun document from 1955. The NSA conduct guide!
http://cryptome.org/2013/07/nsa-conduct-guide-1955.pdf
Marcus
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