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a thing I've noticed in dealing with STEM folks is that they really believe that all failures result from ignorance or ineptitude, whereas most social scientists learn to see one actor's failure as another actor's success--or at least an equilibrium that's difficult to budge
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1/ I've been feeling more and more disengaged from COVID work, disillusioned with the growing realization that all the smart research and policy doesn't make a damn bit of difference Not for the 1st time, I've seen that what I thought was an information problem is something else
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I'm not sure if this results from different casts of mind, different habits, or the valorization of some fields as "hard" and others as "easy", but it's a recurring experience
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From the STEM side it often looks like liberal arts suffers from a crippling lack of imagination. Schumpetrian economics gets reduced to mercantile. Automation falls to the lump-of-labor fallacy. Scarcity is presumed permanent. The default tech attitude is win-win or no deal.