Didn’t care when the arts and humanities were being scraped dry, but suddenly they’re all coming out against it now that they’re going after the sciences

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    There is no such concept as STEM bros. Science community has its own problems but being generally anologous to tech bros or fintech bros is not it. Being very strongly curiousity driven, they may indeed be oblivious to how something fucks up other parts of the society but that is very far removed from trying to abuse technology to gain billions. Not that there isn’t an intersection, there is, but not big enough to warrant a generalization. In any case if the issue is billionaires fucking up research for money, they will more often be on your side against the billionaires then not (open science movement was one such reaction). But they would rather free AI from billionaire domination then reject it out right.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
      121·
      1 day ago

      Yea I work in science and there absolutely are STEM bros that are only interested in tricking funding bodies and making up stuff for grants and have zero interest in actually producing good research.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I feel those to be usually non-monolitic enough to warrant being called bros, the latter in my eyes being when people scam at scale and try to represent themselves as a single mass.

        But that’s just how I see it