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 budgehttps://twitter.com/Farzad_MD/status/1326546448851169284 …
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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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Replying to @Aelkus @profmusgrave
I think it’s less STEM vs liberal arts vs what Scott Alexander called mistake theory vs conflict theory. STEM conditions you to look in nonzero-sum ways which tend to unravel set-sum conflict frames.https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/ …
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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.
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