As someone with an engineering degree, I will say that you do not want nerds making up the bulk of legislatures and bureaus. Listening to nerds is part of the reason why we are in the mess we are in now.
My reason for my comment is more for that many of the people I encountered in my studies fail to take care of themselves and are not well-rounded people. I don't think it hurts to have a few people with technical backgrounds if they are well-rounded individuals. Lord knows we have more than enough lawyers making our imagined order ever more complicated. But yes, the thought of scientists trying to approach lawmaking and policy enforcement via the scientific method is disturbing.
As someone with an engineering degree, I will say that you do not want nerds making up the bulk of legislatures and bureaus. Listening to nerds is part of the reason why we are in the mess we are in now.
My reason for my comment is more for that many of the people I encountered in my studies fail to take care of themselves and are not well-rounded people. I don't think it hurts to have a few people with technical backgrounds if they are well-rounded individuals. Lord knows we have more than enough lawyers making our imagined order ever more complicated. But yes, the thought of scientists trying to approach lawmaking and policy enforcement via the scientific method is disturbing.