Re:Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations
by the_af on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:25PM
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Good call on those two XKCDs, but I think it's not society that believes that nothing exists outside what we can scientifically observe. Poets, writers and artists don't believe that. Hollywood makes a living out of not believing in that. Most people I meet don't believe that -- sometimes believing in all kinds of nonsense to an extreme I find irritating, but that's my problem :P
In any case, what's specifically irritating is the entrepreneur / startuper / tech bro belief that "we can make an app to solve this", which sometimes also occurs here on HN. No, not every problem can be solved with tech or an app. Even when it can, you Random Startuper are the sidekick of the story, not the main hero who's calling the shots.
Also https://xkcd.com/55/ and https://xkcd.com/128/
This is the inevitable confusion of a society that insists that nothing exists outside what we can scientifically observe, who rejects concepts of soul and love and still tries to explain their effects using only what they admit. It's like saying we bleed when we're cut because the skin must be producing that blood, denying the existence of veins or a heart.