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 nostr:npub1lqryxa3f6fcqnvhegruqtm8cc26ge89ll4kpueefgh0ca85hgxvq2ucqzp nostr:npub1cac53ctxxt6t5tx7my86hyh0zk42z7d083j9w7pg0shpzptpfjsszq8sqw 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*”