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The qualitative definition, that of practically every major technological breakthrough of the last half century having emerged from America, even if it was later capitalised on by others, more than suffices.
As disrespectful as it is wrong and overly generalized.
How? Since the fall of the USSR, what major technology took a lab-to-living-room path where the “lab” bit wasn’t American?
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> you think it's bleak that one's research now has to be profitable … ? The connection between new knowledge and profit is often indirect and cannot be clearly predicted beforehand. And, why must something be profitable in order to justify it? Are there no valid outcomes other than profit?
> why must something be profitable in order to justify it? Are there no valid outcomes other than profit? Because if it isn't profitable then it needs to be subsidized to continue. Given the replication crisis I don't think it's most people's priority to use part of their paycheck for this.
Some of us believe that there are things that are good for society that are worth the money. Medicaid doesn't make a profit. I'm glad people don't die in abject poverty quite as often as they used to.
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As disrespectful as it is wrong and overly generalized.
> As disrespectful as it is wrong and overly generalized How? Since the fall of the USSR, what major technology took a lab-to-living-room path where the “lab” bit wasn’t American?
Still, the statement that a large (but not all) portion of them were American inventions is probably defensible.
On the other hand, the American economy was one of the few major ones unravaged by WWII conflict.
Scientists commit to politics. Election happens. Election has consequences. Shocker. To be fair conservatives warned about this for decades but nobody listened. The only possible response to this propaganda piece are nodding along religiously or revulsion and disgust at the sheer intellectual dishonesty of it. This kind of superficial performative nonsense is a big part of why the replication crisis is as bad as it i…
"Well, they elected him so off to the gallows with you with a smile on your face, it's what the people want" is not an acceptable world.
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I'm increasingly sympathetic to the perspective that universities cannot both exclude any questioning of their ideological leaning while also expecting republican administrations and voters to continue funding them. I've seen this best expressed here: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-beatings-will-conti... It's one thing to want public funding, but it's quite another to want that funding while expecting naked…
> I'm increasingly sympathetic to the perspective that universities cannot both exclude any questioning of their ideological leaning Well, they don't do that. The myth that universities are liberal monocultures is propagated by the right as an excuse to attack them. Let's turn your argument around: most police departments employee conservative voters. Would you be comfortable with the government requiring "viewpoint…
Said as a liberal.
Litmus test: Say something incendiary in a liberal direction at a university and observe reaction (i.e. "there is no such thing as biological gender"). Say something incendiary in a conservative direction and observe reaction (i.e. "life begins at conception and abortion is murder").
There absolutely was a double-standard.
That said, even if liberals created consequences for conservative speech, they by and large allowed it. (While picketing and, in later years, shouting it down)
In contrast to the current group of populist-conservatives who are anti-free speech and want to erase liberal ideas from existence.
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> As disrespectful as it is wrong and overly generalized How? Since the fall of the USSR, what major technology took a lab-to-living-room path where the “lab” bit wasn’t American?
Lots of things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventi... Still, the statement that a large (but not all) portion of them were American inventions is probably defensible. On the other hand, the American economy was one of the few major ones unravaged by WWII conflict.
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We were, it’s just that this special property was owning our own private continent.
Australia tried that, too, but their continent is really problematic.
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This feels revisionist to me. It was not accidental. The US had the booming wartime economy, AND it had a State department that went at solidifying global influence. Essentially the "greatest generation" locked in America's situation, and doubled down on cultural and economic dominance. The combination of state, industry and WMF-type loans extended American power globally. It was a very very good time to be American.…
Maybe not "accidental", but it's lucky for the US that the Nazi regime came to power in central Europe instead of Northern Mexico or Canada. Or even inside the US itself.
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> I'm increasingly sympathetic to the perspective that universities cannot both exclude any questioning of their ideological leaning Well, they don't do that. The myth that universities are liberal monocultures is propagated by the right as an excuse to attack them. Let's turn your argument around: most police departments employee conservative voters. Would you be comfortable with the government requiring "viewpoint…
There was a liberal monoculture in American universities ~2000-2023. Said as a liberal. Litmus test: Say something incendiary in a liberal direction at a university and observe reaction (i.e. "there is no such thing as biological gender"). Say something incendiary in a conservative direction and observe reaction (i.e. "life begins at conception and abortion is murder"). There absolutely was a double-standard. That sa…
The fact that there are a large number of liberals at universities does not make it a monoculture. There is no conspiracy to keep non-liberals out. Your anecdote shows nothing.