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"It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor" https://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html
I already thought it was time to retire just because the way it was presented always felt... uncomfortable, to say the least. But this article presents a whole bunch of reasons.
www.righto.comThe origin of the cargo cult metaphorThe cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
@cwebber I was so unsurprised when I found out Feynman's tall tales were basically the source of the whole racist/colonialist myth here, by chance, right after hearing a treatise on what bullshit he and the cult around him were.