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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Wittgenstein was an engineer iirc
Edward Witten (superstring theorist) started out in Poli Sci
I’m sure there’s a lot of examples
Kuhn had a PhD in Physics. Lacan studied medicine. Husserl studied math & physics.
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