{"id":3980,"date":"2023-10-05T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2023-09-16T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T22:20:34","slug":"engineers-and-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/10\/engineers-and-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers and Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is often best to leave the conversations of another profession to those other professionals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am an engineer. There, got that out of the way. And I have a Doctor of Philosophy or PhD in engineering. I have not idea why they call the degree by that name. Oh well, got that out of the way as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, engineers have discussed some of the software they engineered. We use words like &#8220;hallucinate,&#8221; &#8220;bias,&#8221; and such. Sounds like philosophic terms, but we apply these to the machines we have built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an engineer, ever hear two philosophers talk about engineering? Oh my gosh! What a joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever hear two philosophers discuss the conversation of two engineers when the topic is philosophy? Oh no, us engineers understand philosophy just fine, right? We couldn&#8217;t possibly sound as silly as &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we can; yes, we do. Stick to engineering or philosophy or whatever is my field. Let the other folks discuss their field. Don&#8217;t borrow adjectives from their field and misapply it to my field. We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is often best to leave the conversations of another profession to those other professionals. I am an engineer. There, got that out of the way. And I have a Doctor of Philosophy or PhD in engineering. I have not idea why they call the degree by that name. Oh well, got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,115,361,312,412],"tags":[154,227,362,313,413],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-engineering","category-expertise","category-humility","category-language","tag-communication","tag-engineering","tag-expertise","tag-humility","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}