Marcus - > > Steve writes: > > > > “Do we, as the painters of our own windows develop good skills and a > strong aesthetic awareness, or do we buy the cheap Hobby Lobby > colored-plexiglass stain-glass-by-by-number kit and copy patterns we > find on Pinterest or YouTube?” > > > > It depends what the window is looking at. Does the model need to be > good or does it just need to get the job done? > > For any given instance, I fully acknowledge the value of "cheap heuristics" (e.g "profiling", "rule of thumb", "shoot from the hip"). What I'm trying to expose is the meta-heuristic of being a facile model builder/adopter/fitter... and how our technological prosthetics (precut colored plexiglass and stain-by-number patterns or GPS/routing systems that present opaque-to-the-user preferences or predictive SDE programming environments).
There is also a syntax/semantics tension in your question which seems to parallel the "ends/means" justification. - Steve
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