As If Programmers Needed Another Reason to Think They Are God.... 2

Posted by Christopher Smith Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:18:00 GMT

This is what happens when a programmer starts to dabble in biology. Keep this in mind the next time you meet someone with a bioinformatics background. Even if they aren’t dangerous, they probably think they are, and that’s reason enough to give them a wide birth.

I’m pretty sure one day we’re going to really understand DNA/RNA/etc., and then we’ll find a segment that translates to:

// Worst hack ever!
// This doesn't actually make a rational decision, but instead just does what_I_want_to_do
// without even looking at relevant_factors.
// Returns a rationalization for what_I_want_to_do.

struct rationalization
make_decision(struct decision what_I_want_to_do, struct factors* relevant_factors)
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  1. googlefodder 28 minutes later:

    Well I didn’t see much in their that sounded like sociobiology (although he does ref Dawkins) so he can’t really be THAT dangerous. Sociobiology is the epitome of what biologists consider dangerous about applying causal mechanisms to evolutionary theory. Dawkins didn’t do this directly of course. He just trivialized and simplified things down so that everyone else could and did.

  2. Programmers about 8 hours later:

    Ok I will keep my distance when I meet a Bio Programmer :)

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