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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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 @Thermid66919264
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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Replying to @MeltedJonSnow @knrd_z and
This threads optimism reminds me of a lot of situations over the last few years that always sounded oh so plausible, but quickly ended in tears as this beast responds with absolute force to a threat.
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Lots of slatestarcodex - "hey, we can improve our outcomes in this way and that" while avoiding looking directly into the abyss of "these outcomes are the direct result of a government structure that also implanted your entire sense of right and wrong as protection"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @MeltedJonSnow and
That was a loss that hurt. Parable of lighting and thunder was brilliant and simple. A good example of how easy it can be.
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