An insight I hear discussed at the intellectual frontiers and various elite circles: The great 20th century project of Social Science has turned out disappointingly poorly. The original Humanities seem comparatively quite powerful as a toolbox for social engineering. 1/3
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The unstated problem with the failure of Social Science, is that various decision makers and intellectuals are left privately wondering what to do next. Such a realizations leaves our societies key institutions de-legitimized! 2/3
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We are then left with the important task of finding ways to reintegrate humanities insights into institutional decision making. The current attempted solution is imperfect but should work: launder the insights by pretending they are coming from machine learning. 3/3
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My task as researcher and institution builder is to find a better solution.
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Replying to @SamoBurja
I think it is possible to retrace what went wrong in the 20th century social sciences, i.e. when and how they lost touch with epistemology under the influence of continental phil, when the influence of misreading Weber and Marx opened the door to becoming normative etc.
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Now the problem is that sociology has become a cult that is blocking the development of social science, like the dinosaurs blocked the ascent of mammals. A reboot requires more than funding new initiatives, it also has to deprogram the cult, or to rebuild the entire humanities.
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