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Comment by grillvogel | Hacker News Reader

i love how CS people always assume everyone in every other field is just slacking off waiting on the programmers to assist them with their elite knowledge about things no one else has considered

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Actually economists are easily the worst offenders of any field - they even gave a name to it, "economic imperialism"

Computer Scientists in my experience are quite respectful of a number of other fields, including mathematics, most engineering disciplines, physics, even philosophy (logic) and psychology (big in stats), and most recently, biology. Computer Scientists have a "no-bull" mentality, because ultimately the output of their endeavours has to work on an unforgiving and brutally honest machine, unlike economics, where the output need only persuade others in the field, who have a vested interest in perpetuation of credibility of the discipline, leading to the suspicion, by others, of alchemy.

I think it has to do with how integral computers are to every other field. Like if everything deeply depended on woodworking to function, carpenters would be offering input on everything.

   assist them with their elite knowledge about 
   things no one else has considered

Did economists consider how computationally hard it was to find Nash equilibria before CS folk?

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