Morning Jolt: Consider the Children

This is the last Morning Jolt until May 26; enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.

Our Response and Reopening Plans Are Designed for Robots

Jason Pargin is the former editor of Cracked.com. He usually writes comedy, but also often offers really keen insights on human nature, which is arguably one of the purposes of comedy. Pargin asked for the right term for the fallacy that a policy, plan, or idea will work as long as human beings act like perfectly programmed robots, instead of the myriad, unpredictable, flawed, flesh-and-blood creatures that we are. (A strong contender for the right term, but perhaps not quite on the nose, is "the engineer's fallacy," the idea that the logical solution is the best solution, regardless of how that solution actually works in the real world.)

Pargin observed, "Whatever it’s called, I feel like some of us have strayed into it in the pandemic ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 22 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 22 2020 Consider the Children This is the last Morning Jolt until May 26; enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Our Response and Reopening Plans Are Designed for Robots Jason Pargin is the former editor of Cracked.com. He usually writes comedy, but also often offers really keen insights on human nature, which is arguably one of the purposes of comedy. Pargin asked for the right term for the fallacy that a policy, plan, or idea will work as long as human beings act like perfectly programmed robots, instead of the myriad, unpredictable, flawed, flesh-and-blood creatures that we are. (A strong contender for the right term, but perhaps not quite on the nose, is "the engineer's fallacy," the idea that the logical solution is the best solution, regardless of how that solution actually works in the real world.) Pargin observed, "Whatever it’s called, I feel like some of us have strayed into it in the pandemic ...   READ MORE

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