gosh that's really amazing that people who can <checks notes> build tools that automate processes and increase utility per dollar spent are paid more than people who can <checks notes again> deliver a latte while making a poorly structured quip about Derridda or Foucalthttps://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1202808504081420289 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
I'd never imply that philosophers are stupid, but most philosophy students are (because most students take philo 101 for an easy A). The same cannot be said of the mathematics department. At least until whole subdisciplines of grievance studies take root there.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @MorlockP
The Philosophy of Physics is an amazing and hilarious junction between these two groups of people, where a 21/100 score on a test becomes a B because people come in woefully unprepared to discuss the implications of six-dimensional superpositions and tensor math.
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Replying to @moritheil @MorlockP
I personally relished the whining of Math Ed students in "Introduction to Mathematical Proofs". "When will we ever need this?" They sound precisely like their students. It is difficult to explain to people that they were taught calculation, not mathematics.
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The way I usually do is, "Remember all that stuff your teacher put on the board and someone in class asked 'will this be on the test?' and received a firm 'no' for? THAT was the actual mathematics in your math class."
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In my philo 101 course, I had a couple of overweight Hispanic ladies who wanted to discuss how they thought it was unfair that a man at their job got paid more because his job included heavy lifting in addition to their duties during the topic of "feminist epistemology".
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Were they incorrect in thinking that feminist epistemology didn't apply there? The explanation as to why someone more useful to the business gets paid more by that business is derived from economic concepts that aren't valid according to f.e.
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They hadn't done the requisite reading and were filling the time with off-topic discussion to cover for it. And it showed.
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Obviously
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