• selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    I’ve always thought well educated people have a great potential to be dangerous and achieve transcendental goals if organized. A group of engineers, of chemists, physicists, biologists, computer scientists after specific goals may be formidable enemies if they wanted. The 0.001%, the dirty rich, should now be aware.

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      7 days ago

      I think I saw a report many years past that engineers make a bigger than expected proportion of radicalized people, in the context of middle east insurgencies.

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        Engineers tend to be less accepting of the “debate and theory” part of science and more of the “analyze and act” part.

        As in, the debate is stupid, the theory is that the rich have fucked us all, now let’s see what we can do immediately to make it work.