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 @f8064376 @c77148e1 I agree with you substantively, but rhetorically you might be making an error given the ideological priors of the people you’re trying to persuade. The platonic ideal of a STEM booster would reply to this, “yes, of course, if you have a ‘humanities’ problem then you’re doomed since ‘humanities’ isn’t Real Science. You need to transform every problem into a STEM problem and then we can solve it with math without involving fallible, annoying *humans*” 
 @f8064376 @c77148e1 Then they’ll proceed to propose some absolutely horrifying nightmare like designing robots to patrol the streets and shoot people with vaccines so you don’t have to ask them, of course