Perplexed comments on Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 June 2007 09:13PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 August 2010 02:24:20PM 2 points [-]

It's not that Muslim engineers have a special tendency to become jihadis. But engineers do stuff. They solve problems, they act.

My impression of engineers is that they're more apt than the general population to invent, tinker, and adjust, but this is specifically about the sort of physical stuff where they have some knowledge. They aren't especially apt to go into politics.

Comment author: Perplexed 17 January 2011 01:17:20PM 0 points [-]

My impression is that we tend not to participate in the political structures and organizations that non-engineers set up. We are more likely to try to reinvent the whole concept of political action. And, in doing so, to draw our inspiration from science fiction.