Comment by appreciatorBus

13 hours ago

There are whole disciplines whose telos is now activism rather than knowledge production.

4 comments

appreciatorBus

You linked a pdf but I'm not going to scroll 30 pages on a phone to figure out your cryptic statement

There are whole companies whose only goal is to make money for shareholders! Most people on HN work for them!

expedition32 13 hours ago

And those companies make money from government sponsored R&D. and educational pipelines.
appreciatorBus 12 hours ago

Yes.
People working hard on problems that other people are willing to freely compensate them for is a good thing.
Activism disguised as research is a bad thing.