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0 pointsThomPete11y ago0 comments

Thats still a kind of industrial example IMO, the issue with post-industrial is different.

Its fairly easy to estimate how long it's going to travel a mile once you undstand how you have to travel it. You can rarely go faster than you have estimated.

No the actual problem is that in the post-industrial world you haven't even build the car to travel by the highway or the tools to go through the mountain.

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thirdtruck11y ago· 1 in thread

Good point. I'll update the story to better reflect that.

jeremiep11y ago

Even after the update I still see it as an industrial example. Switching from time to money doesn't change knowns into unknowns. If you know exactly how much money and time its going to take for every option then the choice is easy.

A better analogy would be someone asking a doctor how long it will take to cure cancer or aids. "Well you've cured chickenpox before, surely you can estimate a cure for cancer based on that!"

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