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Have social sciences meaningfully advanced our understanding of human nature beyond even what the ancients knew? The natural sciences very clearly have, but I don't see anything remotely comparable with social sciences.
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@ArdainianRight Other way around- they've confused things we once knew and have been fig leaves to tear down every cultural safeguard and fence our forebears had erected.
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They see anything old as something that has to go, be it culture (in any form from mass-media to customs) to computing knowledge.
It's what leads to hilarious shit like Itanium or the entire Rust cargo cult.