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
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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Proof of hacked election or dark lord unicorn founding or you’re just an armchair bridge crosser
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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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Value the exceptions to that highly.
My friends at the other side of the divide call this "selecting on the dependent variable".
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I have a hometown friend who is just now finishing law school. We’ve often joked that we should swap careers. I think lately I’ve realized the amount of chaos one lawyer + one programmer could cause, and that I’m probably happier and safer as a programmer
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