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		Xymist on Nov 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Against the Dark Forest The degree to which a science is valuable is proportional to the degree to which it would keep working if we finally wiped out humans and the goddamned whining stopped. Physics wouldn't notice, sociology would become irrelevant.

dragonwriter on Nov 23, 2024 | [–]

“Valuable” only makes any sense when qualified with to whom, and your claim is clearly not true with any human or set of humans in that role.

etrautmann on Nov 23, 2024 | | [–]

So all of medicine isn’t science? What a weird take

kbrkbr on Nov 23, 2024 | [–]

Valuable for whom?

No rational being left then.

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