{"id":565,"date":"2010-02-04T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-02-04T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:51:05","slug":"deus-ex-ignorantia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/deus-ex-ignorantia\/","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex Ignorantia"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><strong>Felten&#8217;s Third Law<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Given an intractable and complex policy problem, people tend to look to areas <em>they are not experts in<\/em> to save the day.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>For example, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. \u2026 It&#8217;s easy to reject non-solutions in your own area because you have the knowledge to recognize why they will fail; but there must be a solution lurking somewhere in the unexplored wilderness of the other area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/blog\/felten\/free-internet-if-we-can-keep-it\">Ed Felton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felten&#8217;s Third Law Given an intractable and complex policy problem, people tend to look to areas they are not experts in to save the day. For example, Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. \u2026 It&#8217;s easy to reject non-solutions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[561,559,562,40,62],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","tag-ed-felton","tag-legal","tag-policy","tag-psychology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}