Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> I don't actually know ANY social scientists who believe Margaret Mead's work
> on Samoan sexual customs was accurate. And I know a LOT of social
> scientists. Even radical feminist commies who worship Margarat Mead now
> accept that this work was largely wrong.
Okay. I accept this result. I still maintain that almost all the social
research that shows up on Eurekalert appears to be politically correct
crap, but I suppose it's barely possible that the soft sciences aren't
complete intellectual wastelands and that some of its members are slowly
straggling into the light of the twenty-first century. If you want any
more than that out of me, you'll have to actually show me a social
scientist doing something right <grin>.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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