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You see this often when programmers comment on physics, neuroscience or even philosophy. Everything is understood in terms of computer science and the successes of the computer industry, because obviously reality is fundamentally what programmers spend most of their time on. Which is something Jaron Lanier pointed out a while back.

Of course I only mean some programmers, and I'm sure mathematicians and physicists aren't immune to the same temptation. It's natural to understand the world through the lens of what you understand best, but there are other big fields of human knowledge out there.




I think also they see that the gap between bootcamp grads or smart college dropouts and a masters in CS is not necessarily that large, and assume the same is true for other fields when that is pretty rarely the case.




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