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The problem is that many of these motivated actors are in academia. Think about the cases we've heard about somebody in academia being accused of sexism because
by Mirioron 8y ago
The problem is that many of these motivated actors are in academia. Think about the cases we've heard about somebody in academia being accused of sexism because they didn't kowtow to the values the types of feminists hold that Cahill mentions. A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear
On that note, your software development comparison is apt: there are people in software development who explicitly want to build tools that lead towards a dystopia. They just believe it won't be a dystopia.
- selimthegrim 8y agoI don’t think Rivin is making out too well as a result of that effort; the editors told him no in no uncertain terms
- Faark 8y ago> A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear That sounds indeed like a motivated actor. I'm not familiar with such a case, so lets keep it at that joke response. > The problem is that many of these motivated actors are in academia. Science and academia are part of society and thus will always have to some degree follow norms. To think the process of gaining knowledge can be perfectly separated is naive. Resources are limited, so we don't want to support crap science. Attention is limited, so the same is true for magazines. As such, it cannot be avoided to reflect the highly divided political sphere to some degree in science. Trying to minimize this seems good. But the author seems quite fine with getting the outside involved, since he expect it to help him for now.