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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