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Why?
Probably because a good chunk of "computer scientists" are actually engineers. I say this as a computer scientist in the engineering college of my school
Most computer scientists have very limited expertise, none of which concerns human society. We might as well survey plumbers for their opinions.
Fun fact: did you know that the average CS major scores worse on reading and writing than a business major?
Imagine that level of cognitive decrepitude.
The same could be said of sociologists and plumbers. Sociologists know about people and society, plumbers know about plumbing, and computer scientists know about computers.
With a topic of computers and society, like this one, they each have insight on the situation. I would hope getting them in a room together would lead to solutions less harmful than what's been proposed thus far.
What about cognitive understanding because those are very specific fields that logically wouldn't be the strong focal points for cs professionals compared to the other professionals in the chats?.
Do you read what you write?
as opposed to noncognitive understanding? Wtf are you talking about?
Do you have a source for
Do I have a source for the fact that computer scientists have no specialized training on topics outside of computer science? (In addition to being apparently illiterate on average, which is what their performance on the GRE implies.)
Fascinating question. Have an upvote.