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This is the partially examined life episode 293 Part 2.

We've been talking about Donna J. Herowais, situated in Alleges, cyborg, manifesto.

We're kind of enmeshed in what this cyborg as a rhetorical device amounts to.

And what she thinks, we're supposed to be able to get ethically out of that.

So was it a matter of part of maybe the from a practical standpoint, the God position

would be the scientist as philosopher, as armchair philosopher sort of surveying all and pursuing

truth for truth sake and this sort of thing, whereas when you actually are going to do

something that is going to have effects on the world, perhaps a better way would be some

sort of committee drawn from people who will be affected in different ways.

I mean, is this sort of what as a practical matter gets down to, you were just saying,

not having all white guys in charge.

Like, yeah, okay, as a practical matter, and this is sort of the theoretical, the long

theoretical argument for why that is actually necessary and why, well, if there are wise

enough white guys, if they can put aside their personal biases and be objective, then

they should do fine.

There's nothing, if West was here, you would say there's nothing epistemically off the

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