1/ When I first started grad school, I was desperately searching for Truth. I turned to computers and math as tools, because they are tools I know how to wield.
3/ I started to realize I wanted Truth as certainty that I was Right. And, I wanted to *Prove *that [political group / policy here] was Wrong.
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4/ That's a dangerous motivation. Empirically- or deductively-derived Truth doesn't give you the "Courage of Your Convictions." It's a *substitute* for courage.
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5/ You learned the difference between right and wrong and how to stand up for the former against the latter sometime before you started to get hair in funny places. Math doesn't help with actual interpersonal conflict part. Certainty doesn't compensate for cowardice.
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6/ And 2017 has demonstrated quite clearly: "What is and is not true" doesn't drive politics. People do.
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