2026-09-11 23:22 UTC
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- Those who opt for this extremism in delegating and giving up control of key #technical / #scientific tasks no longer do so timidly, but rather with increasing ostentation, an apparent arrogance which is perhaps instead stentorian theatricality (an analogy made me think a lot, as if it echoed something else deep: in the classic fight-or-flight dichotomy, now the mode might be an overly ostentatious fight ceremony, a colleague observed, almost like in a Batesian mimicry: but fearing what?)
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-09-11 23:45
12/ - This peculiar behaviour appears not new: several colleagues vividly remember past "epidemics", the peaks of contagion in the form of (sort of) "religious" or "sectarian" exaltation when academy/industry advertising campaigns succeeded in persuading of an imminent and irreversible technical/scientific revolution - e.g. #Bayesian "semantic" networks, #SupportVectorMachines, #RandomForest classifiers/regressors, #blockchain everywhere, ... "new species" which with time found their niche