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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Replying to @knrd_z
It’s an odd phenomenon I’ve noticed where many of those with the proper curiosity for it are stem ( or adjacent), but then they spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel bc they haven’t read as much into it and spent time in circles with disdain for it
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Replying to @Thermid66919264
This is absolutely true too-- almost all the STEM-guy humanities is reinventing something that was well-known in the 1910s. But I like the older writing so I think this ends up being preferable to much of the more informed nonsense the humanities/ social sciences are producing
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Replying to @knrd_z @Thermid66919264
The problem is that there's no curation for the actually useful non-STEM knowledge - the current humanities people are hostile to the idea. If that means STEM people have to reinvent the wheel that's a flaw of humanities - not STEM people dabbling.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Creolus_Magnus and
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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Not so much desire to be taken seriously by STEM but a case of trying to borrow the prestige STEM gained by actually producing useful knowledge.
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