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Why exactly should we "exercise restraint in becoming too reductionistic on complicated engineering problems"?

When we reduce complicated problems down to inaccurate trivial ones by stripping out important details and nuance, we end up with a caricature of the original - one that easily devolves into a to strawman argument to serve someone’s point. This new representation masquerading as the original can carry the same weight as the one it was based off of.

This is spreadsheet brain thinking – likely the same MDD dorks used to justify cutting corners.

There's no nuance when people are dying. None whatsoever.

If someone can't agree to that sort of black-and-white thinking, probably they should be working in an industry where innocent lives aren't dependent upon sound decision-making.

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