Diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) means that Funding Agencies force researchers to hire mentally disabled lesbians of color rather than smart peeps- whose ideas you can steal- or those worthy of sexual harassment. Elderly professors are against this. They argue for MFE- merit, fairness and equality.
Patanjali Kambhapati a Chemistry professor like Tomas Hudlicky- who was 'cancelled' by Twitter mobs after arguing for a return to merit based recruitment and the importance of a Master-Disciple relationship in the Hard Sciences- has an article in the National Post in which he complains that he has not received funding because of his refusal to comply with DIE. He argues, on the basis of 'Classical Liberal' principles that MFE is normative. This is foolish. Classical Liberals want Government Funding Agencies to fuck up massively by hiring crazy Voodoo practitioners to do STEM subject research. Sooner or later, tax payers rebel. The Government shrinks. It gets out of a field it had no business to be in in the first place. As for DIE, once a field turns to shit, the 'diverse' give it a wide berth and concentrate on selling each other drugs in between drive-by shootings.
There are many intellectual arguments to support the humble practice of MFE that are derived from classical liberal principles,There are none. Nobody knows what is or isn't merit or what is or isn't fair. Getting good grades may just mean you are good at getting good grades but have shit for brains. That's why the market must do 'discovery'. It has to take the risk that the guy that is hired might turn out to be a dud. But that risk need not be too costly. Don't throw good money after bad. Fire the fool.
in lieu of a moralistic belief in DIE, which is derived from academic post-modernism and cultural Marxism.No. It arose out of identity- or vote bank- politics. India has DIE though our politicians don't know about modernism- forget post-modernism. The only sort of culture they are interested in is agriculture. As for Karl Marx- they think this is a posh way of saying 'Kali Ma'.
What Indians are against is MFE because kids on the merit list tend to have shit for brains which is why they are good at passing exams. Anyway, those who don't have shit for brains- like Patanjali's Dad, fuck off to America first chance they get. But then even very stupid people want to get to Amrika. The thing is a 'no-brainer'.
But what is needed is not another intellectual argument that can be dismissed as the grievances of “privileged straight white men,”totally unprivileged darkies have even greater grievances against Scientific researchers who are shit at their job. How come nobody has invented a pill that could make me slim and smart? Also I want a bigger dick. And more hair. Not hair on my dick. Hair on my scalp.
but an argument that appeals to our shared sense of morality, ethics, aesthetics and humanity.We have no such 'shared sense'. It is immoral that people expect me not to fart loudly in the face of any potential employer.
The means of progress should be derived from
entrepreneurial and scientific 'discovery'. Kuhn's 'no neutral algorithm' applies. There is no a priori way of getting optimal 'progress' by imposing conditionalities e.g. MFE. We ought not to care how the thing happens. We only ought to care that success is rewarded and failure is punished.
A CDC recruited under MFE which fails to tackle COVID should be defunded same as one which observes DIE.
humbly examining and advancing the principles of human liberty, rather than holding and defending beliefs in social justice.Presumably DIE will lower real wages for entrants. This means that Government funded research becomes less and less productive. The Private Sector can go in the opposite direction- or if it can't, smart peeps can move to China. This reduces 'State Capacity' because the Government's technocratic cadre is deskilled. This is what happened in the Financial Sector. The Government was employing thickos who didn't understand what was going on. Thus power could shift to the hedge fund managers and the private equity guys and so forth. Hilariously, some of them paid for 'Cultural Marxism' or, more reasonably, 'Trans' activism. This harmed the Left-Liberals. Modi fans were delighted when Soros trained his guns on the Indian PM.
The only way to proceed is through the free exchange of ideas,with me? Is there anybody anywhere who wants to exchange ideas with me? Yet, I only say what most people are secretly thinking.
which is currently impossible due to the religious-like behaviour of those who aim to shame others into silence.Which has a backlash effect. I bet Patanjali is a bleeding heart. Then the woke nutters started interfering with his ability to do cutting edge research. This pushed him towards the Jordan Peterson camp.
I hope that my experienceskids called him a nigger and beat him up back in the Seventies. Nothing similar happened to me in London- though Mum would have slapped the black off me if she found my porn stash.
can play a role in enabling others to speak and think freely
and thus start calling him a nigger once again
and add value to the never-ending drive for human progress and freedom.
There is no such drive. What does exist is the desire for tenure or a Civil Service job with a gilt edged pension. If you can get both by babbling paranoid nonsense, so much the better. Wealthier countries can afford to subsidize a class of credentialized cretins. Econ 101 suggests that time consuming lab work should be outsourced to poor countries where people would pay good money to get into an air-conditioned and sterile environment. Train up those guys by all means. True some may escape to Amrika to get rich driving a taxi but the rest will soon develop a passion for their work.
Jordan Peterson quotes the following passage from the paper which got Hudlicky into trouble
“The training and mentoring of new generations of professionals must be attended to by proper relationships of ‘masters and apprentices’ without dilution of standards.
Get apprentices where they are cheap and will compete fiercely with each other. Also poorer countries tend to have a culture of respect to the Pundit, or Ulema, or Shifu or whatever.
Hudlicky described two conditions which must be met if the successful transfer of skills is to occur: first, the knowledge in question must be transferred within three generations, or risk being lost forever;
The US lost the ability to produce H bombs for a brief period precisely because the relevant skills were not transferred. In Chemistry, there are 'hacks' and 'heuristics' which don't find their way into the manuals because they appear unscientific.
second, there must be ‘an unconditional submission of the apprentice to his/her master.’
This was a foolish thing to write in the age of 'Me Too'. What Hudlicky should have said is 'in lab work, there must be military discipline and subordination'. This is fine because we have a mental picture of a sloppy guy ignoring his supervisor and thus blowing up the campus.
This applies not only in the sciences but also in art, music, and martial arts….
No it doesn't. This Hudlicky dude is as stupid as shit. Not blowing up the lab is one thing, telling your Professor to fuck off- Shakespeare wasn't really a lesbian of color- is perfectly safe and acceptable.
Submission to one’s mentor is rarely attainable today.
Because the CIA is run by Lesbians. They have put something in the water which is causing my dick to shrink. Also, sometimes I find myself wanting to go down on the post-man. It's one thing to submit to one's mentor but wanting the Pizza delivery boy to tie you up and shove radishes up your arse is the evil consequence of political correctness gone mad!
Many students are unwilling to submit to any level of hard work demanded by professors.
With the result that they spend the rest of their lives submitting to much more boring and onerous hard work demanded by the Fast Food joint where they work.
The university does not support professors in this endeavour as it views students as financial assets and hence protects them from any undue hardships that may be demanded by the ‘masters.’
I recall the Registrar of the LSE calling me in to ask why I hadn't taken my Second year exams. I explained that I hadn't attended the Classes or Lectures because I tended to sleep during the day. It occurred to the Registrar that I might be either very very stupid or very very bright. That's the problem with 'merit'. There's no way to tell who has it or who hasn't. True I'd got 3 A grades at A level at the age of 16. But that might just mean I was good at passing A levels. The Registrar sent me to Prof. Prest to find out whether I actually knew any Economics. I did because I like sleeping and Econ texts are soporific. The one exception is the work of Ken Arrow which are unintentionally hilarious.
This situation, coupled with the fact that professors have less and less time to mentor students in the laboratory, cannot provide for a productive transfer of skills, especially the maintenance of standards and integrity of research.”
Fuck is the point of being devoted to your Professor if he only shows up once in a blue moon? In the old days the apprentice lived with the master. Speaking generally, he was doing the master's wife and teenage daughters. There are many excellent documentaries on this topic on Pornhub.
This is an additional 170 words, and offers an opinion most famously put forward by Michael Polanyi, a polymath of genius level, who made contributions to chemistry, philosophy and economics, and who delineated the importance of “tacit knowledge” (knowledge that was acted out but not necessarily articulated) in the transmission of specialized technical ability across the generations.
This is an argument which cuts both ways. The object of tacit knowledge, in the social sphere, may be generated in a tacit way. If this leads to bad outcomes, you may have to swap out 'bad' parts till you get the right outcome. True, you may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater but what is the alternative?
The truth is that 'spontaneous order' involves extinction events. Equally, doing crazy shit may be, with hindsight, the only reason you survived. Only the fitness landscape matters. Fuck 'ontology'.
Hudlicky was therefore criticized and pilloried by individuals on Twitter who appeared to know nothing of Polanyi’s work (and for whom such ignorance was arguably justifiable) but also by the editor of Angewandte, for whom such ignorance was most certainly not.
Hudlicky wrote stupid shit. It simply isn't true that anybody should be the 'apprentice' of a fucking pedant. Take the Matsushita bread maker. The software team tried to figure out why its bread tasted shitty. One of them went to work in a bakery. He soon found that bakers twist the dough as the stretch it. The team incorporated a twisting motion in the code and the bread was a little better- or so they claimed. Notice that the guy who went to work in the bakery did not become the apprentice of anyone. He did not bow his head as the 'master' lectured him on the ontology of bukakke. The guy just made an observation and copied it. Mimetic effects matter. Talking bollocks doesn't.
Acquisition of this knowledge, according to Polanyi, required precisely the unfreedom recommended by Hudlicky — followed (with the acquisition of the aptly named Master’s degree) by autonomy in thought and action increased beyond what would have been capable in the absence of the devoted apprenticeship in question.
This is foolish. Polanyi was a doctor who got interested in Chemistry. There was no question of 'unfreedom'. He followed his passions but can't be said to have been anybody's disciple. I think, his successes arose from his superior mathematical intuition. His thesis was on adsorption which immediately opens various mathematical doors. By 1921, he had made a big contribution to Fiber diffraction with his concept of a 'Polanyi sphere'.
Such a process can only be undertaken by a pupil capable of regarding his or her teacher as a true mentor, and by a mentor bent on the eventual production of a pupil more capable than him or herself.
Who was Einstein's mentor? Minkowski? Nope. Einstein was sui generis. Life isn't really a Kung Fu movie where failure to obey the Shifu will result in defeat at the hands of the villain.
None of that, according to Hudlicky (and this is a not unreasonable hypothesis in this day and age) is possible in the university as currently constituted, even in the hard sciences.
There is an easy workaround. Do the smart stuff in a private facility not subject to DIE. Let the Campus turn to shit. Why teach when you can make more money as an administrator working on Inclusion of Diversity or creating a safe space for vaginas?
Not only is it not possible, he implies, but it is no longer posited even as an acceptable aim.
Because smart peeps should be working in the private sector where they'll have an incentive to invent cool stuff so as to get very very fucking rich.
In a properly functioning institute of training, however, it might be argued that disciplined and contractually-mediated temporary subjugation to higher authority is eminently desirable,
If you get paid you ought to be subject to higher authority. If you are paying, you should get to call your Professor a Fascist cunt. The fellow then laughs all the way to the bank.
despite the limited sacrifice of casual autonomy that might require, if the person or persons to whom the subjugation is made are true experts.
But who is to say what constitutes expertise as opposed to obsessive compulsive disorder? Also, the true expert may find it more profitable to pursue some more lucrative or respectable profession.
It is the willingness to undertake this apprenticeship, as well as the capability of superseding it, that makes up the master in “Master’s degree”—
No. It is the willingness to fork out a bit of money for a piece of paper.
a designation that Brock still grants, despite potentially colonial overtones at least as damning as those that characterized Hudlicky’s writing.
Mistress of Arts suggests erotic possibilities of a type which will certainly condemn you to Hell fire.
Good chemists should quit Universities and get Corporate funding for their own Research Institutes. They should hire and fire young people whose brains haven't yet turned to shit. Fuck tenure. Fuck administrators. Fuck funding bodies. Lets just have lots of research giving rise to lots of cool inventions.
The Academy should specialize in puerile shite. That way kids have an incentive to climb out of the play pen and become grown ups.
Peterson objects to puerile shite though he himself has made a lot of money scolding people to just fucking grown up already and take responsibility for your own shitty lives.
a group of three professors at Concordia were awarded a New Frontiers in Research Grant (announced in late 2019) aimed at “engaging Indigenous understanding and involving Indigenous communities in the co-creation of knowledge, the project aims to decolonize contemporary physics research and attract Indigenous students.”
So cool! Pass me the peace pipe.
The head researcher, Dr. Tanja Tajmel,
who is not a physicist.
“questioned the colonial assumptions made in the way Western science evaluates light
photons are totes triggering coz they represent Cultural appropriation! Pho is a Vietnamese dish. American GIs raped it tons of times.
and what it considers knowledge.” Dr. Louellyn White,a Mohawk from Akwesasne who I suspect is secretly Iyengar
associate professor in First Peoples Studies, added that “Indigenous ways of knowing have been suppressed and marginalized throughout academic history
because guys who are being suppressed and marginalized probably aint very good at tech
and we are finally gaining momentum in elevating Indigenous knowledges as equally valid to Western science…
in the sense that my PhD in tying my own shoelaces is equal to Sheldon's PhD in String theory.
If we, as an institution, do not embody the Territorial Acknowledgement by recognizing and affirming the expertise of our Elders as Knowledge Keepers, the acknowledgement becomes nothing but empty platitudes.”
is a sentence which is about as empty as a platitude can get.
Dr. Ingo Salzmann,
also an Austrian or German, like Tanjel. Is there a conspiracy on the part of the Teutons to send their stupidest people to Concordia?
the last of the three principal investigators to whom the funds were awarded, says, “The culture of physics certainly changes with diverse people involved.” He argues, “Therefore, decolonizing science involves challenging the underlying hierarchies.”Poor chap, he's a genuine scientist but maybe this gig will get him a salary bump. Still, it warms the cockles of my heart to think of his two female associates tying him to a totem pole and hacking at his dick with tomahawks. Maybe there's something to be said for hierarchies. Ordinary people like me have to pay top dollar for anything similar.
Universities have perverse incentives. They need to fool cretins like me into paying for qualifications which will do us no good because employers soon give us the sack when they discover that the only type of knowledge we have is 'indigenous' and involves shitting on their desks. This does mean that Universities have to create some jobs for their alumni to teach such indigenous knowledge. True, initially, some Austrians or Germans might be involved so as to send the message that this is part and parcel of fighting Nazism or preventing the resurrection of Hitler. But sooner or later, indigenous people will shit on the desks of those Austrians and accuse them of Cultural appropriation and thus chase them away. There is no harm in having a more diverse bunch of cretins on the faculty. What is absurd is not disintermediating Universities from any epistemic function. The place ought to be dedicated to pederasty and finger painting. It is absurd to suggest that any Professor aint shite unless he chooses not to do better for himself in the private sector because his Mummy told him that venture capitalists bite your dick off.
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