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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as a philosophy MA, I can confirm that the power vaccums in humanities fields are huge and neglected. I basically got frog marched out of the discipline because I insisted that our word games had real world implications that didn't just coincide with culture war meat grinders
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This is amazing. But maybe there’s a case to be made for widening the bridge so that it’s easier for non-sociopaths to cross?
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If memes are merely "word games" then why are we here at Meme Reserve considered the Ruby Tuesday's of modern monetary theory? "Money is a creature of law" but salad is a creature of the salad shooter.pic.twitter.com/15dEA3GJT7
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I can think of some examples of humanities sociopaths walking into STEM camp (various companies spring to mind), and acquiring resources / wreaking havoc. I am having trouble picturing a STEM sociopath going into a humanities camp and wreaking havoc. Could you walk me ...
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through a fictional example of how that would work?
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