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It makes me smile to see programmers having the same arguments about language that philosophers have been having about stories for three thousand years.

@Mainebot I suspect that many programmers would consider philosophy the least relevant branch of the humanities.

@starbreaker

Kind of a real shame.

The humanities in general get endless amounts of shit from other disciplines, but then you see shockingly immoral silicon valley 'disruption' and then suddenly "oh no how could we ever have foreseen this no one could have predicted this," but seriously, a philosophy student, an English major, or even just a rhetorician could have fixed your problem before it started.

@Mainebot @starbreaker Yeah, but humanity majors have basically run the world for the past hundred years. Don't most politicians have backgrounds in Poli sci and law?

Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker

@Canageek @Mainebot That's the flip side. Complete ignorance of STEM disciplines is as bad as complete ignorance of the humanities. People need both, and we need more dialogue and cooperation between specialists in STEM and the humanities.

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@starbreaker @mainebot @canageek There was a time (before the Industrial Revolution, I guess) where it was expected to love both.