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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You redeemed yourself a lot by being a Kinect hacker and non-utopian, but there's a humanist soul in there
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I’m a hippie kind of post-humanist. The lack of human specialness raises the rest of the universe rather than lowering us
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