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I see little evidence he would want to talk to them, indeed his way of life is an insult to their discipline and their discipline is a threat to his way of life
by walleeee 5y ago
I see little evidence he would want to talk to them, indeed his way of life is an insult to their discipline and their discipline is a threat to his way of life
Consciousness of history is inoculation against the sort of "thought leadership" PG sells
- UncleMeat 5y agoI personally know an unusual number of historians of science for a software engineer. If PG approached them with an open mind, I'm very confident that they'd love to talk to him. Historians do history because they love their topic so much that they are willing to suffer an abusive career and low pay. They want nothing more than to talk about the things they study.
- walleeee 5y ago> Historians do history because they love their topic so much that they are willing to suffer an abusive career and low pay. Yes, incidentally people like this are probably not easily swayed by the minimally researched thoughts of a venture capitalist I hope he talks to some historians but I fear he may intuit this and avoid it, consciously or not I hope your historian friends have a habit of sharing their work with engineers!