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by underpantsgnome 4244 days ago
See, the thing is, people are already trying really hard to do that. Practicing programmers, even.
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And it's hard to do that even when the desired outcome is just good code.

Now try and do it when the desired outcome is good people (education).

Good point. Would you agree that: even if a phenomenon (for example performance of some sort of worker) is hard to model, we should still try, especially if that phenomenon provides enormous value to society?