Both the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer are engineers by training.
Peter Thiel is a philosopher by training. Alex Karl (Palantir) is a Frankfurt School social theorist.
It astounds me that people still think bridging the two-cultures gap in either direction is a panacea
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Somebody, possibly , needs to a write a definitive debunking of the Myth of the Healing Bridge.
If anything, anybody crossing the bridge in either direction is far more likely to fuel the widening gyre
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If you cross the STEM/humanities divide at all, chances are a) you’re a contrarian who’s picked beefs in native turf, bringing a grudge to the other side b) have dangerous skills and weapons the other side is not used to c) want to use relative differentiation for personal gain
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humanities sociopaths who cross over into STEMland discover that real power exists and holy shit, it’s held by innocent types who have no idea what it’s worth and just _give_ it away to anyone who flatters them with the slightest interest
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STEM sociopaths going the other way discover that real power vacuums exist and holy shit there are big, bold moves that can be engineered and holy shit, huge hack possibilities are obscured by innocent types who think the limit of action is talking and winning word games
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"Bridging the two-cultures gap" might have something to do with genes according to Rose McDermott.
Liberals (Thiel) literally don't like the smell of conservatives (Koch) and visa versa. 🤔
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Education can’t always displace regressive narratives. Still, the hope of cross-disciplinary education is to at least partially inoculate people against narrow, zero sum, scapegoat, in-tribe thinking.
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