[Sigia-l] The Menace

[karl fast]

Yup, it's a horribly flawed analogy and doesn't fit at all with what
I said just before. 

--karl


>> We are saying "We've built a ship, here it is, now help us figure
>> out where to take it and how to sail it."
> 
> I'm sure you're going to discover the irony in that analogy, upon
> re-reading it. Because any good IA would tell you that one designs
> the ship *after* figuring out its destination, purpose, etc. That's
> putting the carriage before the horse, if I may mix metaphors. But
> that's also a classical "top-down organization" problem and, it
> seems, you'll need to defend it.