[satisfice]

Okay, this might sound sarcastic or something, but I'm perfectly serious: thank you for making your position clear. There's a lot to be said for living like the First Peoples of Earth, eschewing technology. If humans hadn't adopted city living and other trappings of civilization there would be no global warming and we would have a world population of a couple hundred million.

Of course, that chariot has already left the barn, along with the plow, roads, underfloor heating, glassware, steel, explosives, medicine, computers, networks, etc., etc.

Relative to life as a Serengetti hunter, most of modernity is bullshit. But none of us come from that point of reference. My point of reference tonight is that I'm writing code to automatically create all combinations of symptoms to help me brute force test a system that diagnoses illnesses. Relative to the fact that we want to release next week and we want it to work, this testing needs to be done and so this code needs to be written.