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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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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Autistic
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Guilty as charged, officer. I brings the poetry to the Morlocks and the rigors to the Eloi.
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A polymath is a weaponized dilettante.
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Proof of hacked election or dark lord unicorn founding or you’re just an armchair bridge crosser
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Value the exceptions to that highly.
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Bullshit. 1. There is no "STEM Culture", its a whole lot of otherwise unrelated fields, done by unrelated people. 2. Contrary to popular belief many people in STEM either have liberal arts degrees or do art, and many people in STEM have art/creative hobbies turned career
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I fully reserve my right to go after anyone who's sole credibility in life is bachelors degree, regardless of subject. There are no shortage of entitled middle class shits that think they are either intellectuals or entitled to better because of this.
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My friends at the other side of the divide call this "selecting on the dependent variable".
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Let me help you out: Duncan Watts, Herbert Simon, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Kenneth Arrow, Cosma Shalizi, Andrew Gelman, and a big etc.
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