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Saying that something is apolitical is like saying someone is speaking with "unaccented English". By definition, you can't say anything in any language without
by shalmanese 7y ago
Saying that something is apolitical is like saying someone is speaking with "unaccented English". By definition, you can't say anything in any language without an accent, it's just that some accents, by virtue of being default, get promoted to the status of "unaccented".
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThat's not true. For example, homotopy type theory is apolitical.
- UncleMeat 7y agoIf you strip it of context then sure. Grad students working on pl research are largely funded by the government, often by the military. They work in a subfield that has low adoption among undergrads, especially undergrads from schools other than top ranked schools. The work seeks to solve a specific set of problems in cs and software engineering, which may or may not be the most impactful problems out there. We also see vast differences in formal methods between US and European institutions both in coursework and in research.