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Re:The Humanities Are in Crisis by whatshisface on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:22PM (#17996101)
>Or, why worry about engineering good quality products if goodness doesn't exist?

Why bother reasoning from our intuitions about what we want when we could just pursue our subconscious goals directly? Who needs to be convinced that they want a product to be good-quality?

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Re:The Humanities Are in Crisis by yters on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:51PM (#17996402)
> Who needs to be convinced that they want a product to be good-quality?

Many people, apparently.

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