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by uoaei 57 days ago
I recommend for you to read Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society.
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I'm not sure I see the relevance?
Yours is a rather pedestrian dorm-room take on epistemology and relevance of the moral dimension to social progress whose flaws are addressed in longform by Feyerabend.
What a bizarre response.

I was relaying the technical details of working in these data environments based on deep, real-world operational experience in the domain. There is no "moral dimension" to it, I was describing the world as it exists.

Does Feyerabend also have an opinion on compiler flags and sorting algorithms?

There is a moral dimension, you're just choosing not to acknowledge it.

Feyerabend speaks to things that add context and nuance to the effects, consequences, and provisions of the things you've felt comfortable discussing so far.

Hence the recommendation. Your awareness could use some expanding, if I may be so blunt.