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yes, as you get closer to human affairs, things get more culturally relative.
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Yes exactly. It gets harder and harder not to invisibly embed values in supposedly “pure” truths.
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It takes courage to draw a line in the sand and decide for yourself where politics begins to dominate
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I see ideologues of all sorts as lacking courage to decide that larger-than-human truths exist and begin somewhere
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Really? In America at least I see far more ideologues claiming they have unique hold on larger-than-human truth.
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ah that's just religion :) I mean more important things like deciding 2+2=4 is not about racism or LGBT rights
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I trust myself to decide where the science ends, politics begins there :) My point is it's not ALL politics
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I trust myself to the extent to which I know the systemic institutional biases shaping research subjects and incentives.
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I think we actually agree on a lot. We just value things very differently. Specifically human meatbags.
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If it helps in future conversations, think of me as Futurama's Morvo rather than human. Die puny humans!
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Have you read any Latour? Specifically We Have Never Been Modern or other Actor Network Theory stuff?
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yes I have, and yes you're right re my reaction. Overall I like him though.
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Yeah totally. That’s part of what’s so interesting. We agree in our description of the world and diverge in values.
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I think you have a lot in common with Latour but would also find some of his position infuriating. It’d be interesting.

