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#marking OK, I'll go there:
Abolish science and engineering. They no doubt have their uses, but it's not worth it for the volume of students they throw out into the world with no grasp of traceable citation, who will unblinkingly quote from a 500-page monograph with no page ref.
Abolish science and engineering. They no doubt have their uses, but it's not worth it for the volume of students they throw out into the world with no grasp of traceable citation, who will unblinkingly quote from a 500-page monograph with no page ref.
AND ANOTHER THING. Fields that train people to introduce authors by surname only on first mention. STOP IT.
Student mentions the work of "Nick Bostrom", no problem, I've got a picture in my head of the superintelligence guy.
Student just says "Bostrom", I've got
Student mentions the work of "Nick Bostrom", no problem, I've got a picture in my head of the superintelligence guy.
Student just says "Bostrom", I've got
Salvation from an unlikely source: apparently one of the Sp#ked crowd saw my plea above, and has come up with a workable strategy to end science. Sounds good. Let's do it!
