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This was a fairly careless little shitpost thread that got way more exposure than I expected. Not gonna defend it against all this unexpected rigorous scrutiny.
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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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Was it riding the way of STEMland sensing the threat of mandatory ethical training and they feel that this is bad factoring, since they don't make any important decisions anyway?
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Even if 'careless', it was good to see someone say this. Can't count the number of times I've had humanities friends make broad vilifying statements about tech. They truly believe tech is full of heartless tech bros and that more 'humanities' types are needed.
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