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Why?

• rayiner 2y ago
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  • 9dev 2y ago
    Yet another shallow dismissal of an entire branch of science, brought to you by random internet guy!
    • rayiner 2y ago
      If social science has explanatory and predictive power hedge funds would have figured out how to monetize that and would be hiring social scientists.
      • tzs 2y ago
        By that argument dentistry is fake.
        • searealist 2y ago
          Large parts of dentistry are fake. There is no evidence regular cleanings do anything.
      • mcphage 2y ago
        There’s plenty that is monetizable that hedge funds choose not to because they’re after a quick buck, and some things—rightfully—take time. In other words, what hedge funds do or do not monetize has little predictive power over anything meaningful.
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• johnyzee 2y ago
  (1) I am wary that the Pentagon aims to make the world safer, at least in the sense of the word that most regular people share, (2) I particularly dislike the Pentagon meddling in secret social science undertakings to pursue those goals, (3) even if the Pentagon's efforts were benign, I believe there are better places and ways for those pursuits to be undertaken.
  • Yoric 2y ago
    Ah, so your problem is the Pentagon, not the social sciences, right?
  • tzs 2y ago
    > (2) I particularly dislike the Pentagon meddling in secret social science undertakings to pursue those goals All of the research in question was public.