At some point, we will have to stop our petty squabbles, and focus on important things.
Replies to: At some point, we will have to stop our petty squabbles, and focus on important things.
Read Alex Karp’s ‘The Technological Republic’
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Looks interesting...and on point.
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Palmer Luckey was on Rogan a few weeks ago, he’s anti-woke
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All the woke BS has put us 10 years+ behind technologically.
Excellence and selection based on characteristics are mutually exclusive. Fortunately, woke and DEI are being exterminated before they completely invaded math and the sciences.
Think about it, when was the last time you were impressed by a technological or engineering marvel in the USA?
I respectfully disagree. Out engineering and technology lags no one!
I feel DEI and Wokeism was mere distractions for political theater.
They might have an impact on the lower end of our intellectual talent but NONE on the top side.
Not true. Wokeism has/had a meaningful impact on practical engineering. Look no further than GM
who installed women as chief engineer on a number of programs that were stalwarts of the company, and now those products are rubbish.
That's not to mention the harm that HR and to some extent legal, which are now largely female and woke, have done to companies, forcing evaluation and hiring of unqualified people in roles that actually matter.
I'll also point you to the ND engineering department, wherein around 40% of majors are female. That looks great on the stats, but as a practical matter, women have a far higher attrition rate from the profession than men.
Good Grief...you are just oozing Misogyny...did some lady beat you out for a promotion? As someone
who has spent his entire career in technology, I've seen plenty of women do their part to advance the field...and others get held back due to the "Good 'Ole Boy" network.
We need as much talented Human Capital as we can find...regardless of Race, Gender or Religion...you're not helping.
Here's a short list of women who have made their mark in STEM (see link)...
btw, there's a long list of Failures by Men, if you care to do some introspection.
Link: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/women-in-science-history
i imagine for entry level types such as yourself, you don't see the harm that quota hiring does.
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What I'm seeing is the harm in not opening opportunities to talented individuals simply due to
their race, gender or religion.
Given Notre Dame's commitment to DEI, I'm wondering why you spend any time at all on this website...must be hard to justify...yet here you are.
i agree. It's time we saw more reverse discrimination suits by white males.
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You made that up
Probably sounds plausible inside the Trump bubble.
Says the guy who literally has zero real world experience. Nerd!
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“Real world” is only the private sector, I guess
I work in a fake world of leprechauns and rainbows.
Everyone in that real world can judge the effect of wokeness on technological change. Obviously.
Academia has its place, but you are so far removed from a viable product or a P&L
you really aren't in a position to comment on either of those things let alone the state of practical engineering in the United States.
The USA has driven our brightest minds into pharmacy, Wall Street and ephemeral rather than practical engineering such that we need to import engineers and engineering students. That's a failing in three regards: 1, what we now worship as a country, 2. our lower education system and particularly in regard to the 3Rs, and 3. a decade + of forcing people who are not qualified but tick a box into important positions in companies and the government.
I am not claiming to be some sort of expert
I'm only stating the obvious: You made up the 10% number, which is based on your hideously biased guesses.
You mean 10 years? Ok. So you generally agree with the point, it's the degree of deficiency
that you disagree with. Got it.
I will trust the people who actually try to measure such things....
...rather than the partisans who go with their biased gut.
Your call. In the olden days, before college became a profit center, there was a partnership
between the government, industry and colleges and universities to assure the colleges/universities were producing the right mix of graduates as needed by the economy.
Then someone figured out you could charge the same for a liberal studies degree and an engineering degree, and the consumers would pay the same for each degree.
In the Olden Days (e.g. Middle Ages)..."Liberal Arts" were at the center of University Curricula...
and the Wealthiest, Most Successful people sought out such graduates as the epitome of what it meant to be Human in all fields. It could be argued that an over emphasis on STEM is diminishing our advancement as Human Beings.
And then they made the BS/BA the equivalent of a high school diploma
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Are you accusing Notre Dame Arts and Letters Grads of wasting their, or their parents', money?
...seems to me, all those BS/BA degrees are being well utilized...more so than their H.S. diplomas alone.
I'm getting the impression you could benefit from a consultation with one of those BS/BA grads who went into Psychology...in other words...you've got "Issues"...
Link: https://al.nd.edu/careers/alumni-outcomes/
Yes to both points.
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The results in the link prove otherwise.
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Budget cuts made them let the unicorns go?
Can't get more "real world" than that...
So humans will no longer be “necessary.”
Or… is AI on its way to becoming a god?
Silicon based species...using us carbon-based life forms as the mere stepping stones...
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Then vote Democrat, Ned.
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No squabbles in the Democratic Party, eh?
Then what in the wide world of sports just happened with the shutdown?