I’m bewildered by the continuing prevalence of the idea that STEM people need humanities courses to be ethical, when so many of the worst decisions of the past year come from bureaucrats applying bad received ethical theories while the techbros (among others) screamed at them to stop.
@Connor If you think about it, what’s actually hilarious is the idea that software people need a lesson in “ethics” when software is far and away the most seriously ethically generative field in STEM. Hackerism, cypherpunks, free software, copyleft, etc. All that stuff is some of the most practical, powerful ethical thinking to be done in the late 20th early 21st century. Nothing else I can think of comes close. Even movements like Effective Altruism can be argued to be downstream of the sheer overflowing energy that goes into ethical thinking in the software verse.
Getting away from the cargo cult and the fake stuff people use to try and claim some kind of superiority over STEM practitioners, software in particular makes everyone else look like pharisees in rags.
@Connor I think the right message to extract from this is [[strength in diversity]].
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Not to mention that many of the people this crowd hates the most are in fact immersed in the humanities. Zuck is literate in all three ancient languages of the Western canon and has that stupid haircut in imitation of Octavian. Thiel is a philosophy nerd who hosts thinkers to participate in his salon.