What's more conservative, EE or CS?

As a Silicon Valley (SV) conservative, I was thinking to myself, “Which is more conservative, electrical engineering (EE) or computer science (CS)?” Let me allow the reader – whoever that might be – to consider the question briefly before continuing. (Jeopardy theme)

Before diving into the answer, let’s first establish the conceptual context. The foundation of conservatism -- and through inverse causality, liberalism as well – is the fact-value distinction, with conservatism associated with the fact side and liberalism with values.

So how do EE and CS compare in the fact-value distinction. The answer should be pretty obvious to anybody who’s studied both, EE is more fact oriented because it is a branch of and grounded in physics, while CS is more virtual, conceptual, and abstract. With EE, if you’re unsure about the ohms (units of resistance), farads (capacitance), or henrys (inductance) of a device, one can measure it. With CS, if you need more of whatever it is – memory, objects, or agents – one just defines more. Now there are limits to this argument, but CS is related more to math than physics – and then it doesn’t even need to be that related to math.

These observation might explain why SV is so overwhelming liberal, which is to say Democrat. EE is a discipline of design within constraint, which CS and the products associated with it, are comparatively less constrained by physics, or reality for that matter.