A very important point I've touched on before-- everyone who can select into STEM does, leaving the humanities as a safety net for the inept. It's all selection effects, which is why the best work in the humanities now comes from tech-dork hobbyismhttps://twitter.com/FischerKing64/status/1445776122675822607 …
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Yes, I was conflating humanities as a practice and humanities as a body of knowledge/ artifacts. Humanities as a practice is so corrupted that it's worth turning the dial back a century anyway
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To think that many problems got, if not caused, so at least intensified by a desire of humanities to be "taken seriously" by STEM. All major debates that shaped the Social Sciences in the 20th Century at some point revolved around applying the methods of the natural sciences.
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Social science was destroyed for want of being taken seriously by STEM, the humanities were destroyed because they stopped caring whether they were taken seriously by anyone
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A lot of these types are plain hostile to the notion of incremental building of knowledge; prefer to write off a decade of debate in top journals over question X (that has fallen out of fashion) as a waste of time and effort than to consider what was productive in that debate
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Do we have confirmation that there's incremental knowledge accumulation in the humanities and social sciences like there is in STEM? I tend not to think so, and at the very least the evidence is very, very thin
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