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I hear you man. I still remember the nestle infant formula fiasco. Some people should have gotten the chair for that one. No one did though. It's always, "W
by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I hear you man. I still remember the nestle infant formula fiasco. Some people should have gotten the chair for that one. No one did though.
It's always, "Were juuuuust editing a couple genes here. Why do you idiots hate science?" Meanwhile, their higher-IQed classmates can't go two weeks without breaking the frigging build.
Unfortunately, this is a tech board, and Lamettrieism runs wild.
- RandomInteger4 7y agoCan you define lamettrieism for me? I haven't heard that term before, so just curious.
- catalogia 7y agoI believe he's referring to the philosophy of Julien de La Mettrie, though I don't know enough about that subject to say more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie#Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie#Ph...
- jstewartmobile 7y agoIt isn't a canonical term. Just mix determinist beliefs, sloppy models, and a dangerous overestimation of one's own intelligence--then things are pretty much guaranteed to end the same way old Julien did.