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I got out of the habit of visiting here over the winter, when I was busy helping to evaluate submissions for the GE Ecomagination Challenge. I did it for experience working in groups, while staying safely on-line. One result is that now when I read Dlbert, it seems about ten times less exaggerated. The level of incompetence at GE was amazing throughout. We also had about 5% of the entries trying to violate the laws of conservation of energy, and many more spending big bucks to gather pennies worth of energy. But what really struck me is that most people don't understand engineering at all, even if they are involved in the field. They make decisions based on irrelevant similarities to other experiences, and can't distinguish a valid technical objection from a slander.
Socrates wondered about the morality of convincing someone of an idea by tricking them, and so have I. Given the brain power available, that now seems like the only possible approach in many cases. I really would have been farther ahead to have become only a mediocre technologist, combined with a decent salesman. F.W. Lanchester was said to have one of the finest minds ever to be wasted upon the motor-car. One time, reflecting on his Board of Directors, he said "They seem to change their minds rather often, but then, if I had a mind like any of theirs', I'd change it as quick as I could!"

Yes, Dilbert is truth

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I never thought it was exaggerated. In fact I was considering making a website dedicated to corporate idiocy but I decided it was too time intensive and decided to integrate a Gaussian without the error function instead.



This is one of the aspects of the NT world that still perplexes me. How do these people get hired (and not fired) when people such as myself, who are far more qualified, get passed up (or fired)?

I speculate there may be a secret idiot club, similar to the Freemasons, and the Elks, only for idiots, and they just have some ingrained ability to identify one of their own on sight. Their only objective is to get into HR departments and management positions and hire more idiots.



I hope you wished them luck.



Well you can't really blame them for getting their thrills. Anyway, the general public is misinformed and easily enticed enough such that it could be a valuable marketing point. A lot of people just like having something for the sake of the fact that it's better than something else, even if it's only marginally so. I think as someone with AS this was a difficult point for me to grasp....people like superior things because they make them feel superior. They can show it off to their friends and think "My laptop is faster than yours, and better than yours," and it gives them a strange sense of security.

They become Tim Allens, so to speak.

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