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Incredibly interesting: article applying scientific methods to society gets little attention from those who apply it to silicon. It's not that the data is too n
by seamyb88 7y ago
Incredibly interesting: article applying scientific methods to society gets little attention from those who apply it to silicon. It's not that the data is too noisy, or the subject too inconclusive, I believe. It's that the field is constantly telling us that negatives such as crime and deviance are caused by wealth inequality. We don't want to hear that when we're aspiring to be Jeff Bezos.
- mighty_bander 7y agoI only read the abstract because, well, I don't find the subject all that interesting, but isn't the paper stating the opposite? It states that interesting theories deny the assumptions of their audience.
- jchook 7y agoPerhaps that’s why we don’t find this paper itself interesting — it merely affirms our intuition that we find information interesting when it goes against our previous assumptions.