Tech Needs Humanists More

28 points | by eigenBasis 40 minutes ago

7 comments

  • moolcool 7 minutes ago

    People often complain about the humanities requirements for CS degrees, and now the world is run by tech executives who don’t have a clue.

  • princewills_1 2 minutes ago

    i totally agree with this, but i think at this point there's no going back, this AI wave isn't stopping anytime soon and it will continue growing.

      hardbass a minute ago

      I have better hopes about China at least. I hope the Chinese people haven't fallen to hysterical psychoses about "AI doom".

  • Liftyee 10 minutes ago

    I like the idealism, but an important factor making this viable is that people (i.e. employers) must realise that this fundamental reasoning is scarce and pay enough for it to support life, and this must happen before AI takes over.

  • sevenzero 14 minutes ago

    Tech specialists ignoring human feelings about AI and the future of tech, while also looking at the amount of downright evil tech out there makes reconsider about wanting to continue to work in this profession over and over again.

    Before I knew how to program I used to think software developers were smart wizards capable of creating cool stuff out of thin air but the recent years proved me differently given how many of them outright water out of their mouths at the mere thought of replacing the human in the loop with some bullshit parrot we call AI.

    Especially on this website I rarely find people having human first thoughts and it makes me despise software engineers.

      hardbass 6 minutes ago

      Big tech has provided me immense improvements in life. Governments are great at fumbling things at best, experts at killing millions at worst. How is tech worse than governments or other businesses? I am every day grateful to Google, Amazon, OpenAI etc for the wonderful services they provide for so cheap or free. The people who whine are precisely the problem people. Many shopkeepers used to be lazy, rude and think themselves kings. After amazon and home food delivery services, they have gotten whipped into shape. Many items were simply not available at all in one's city, and I can now easily have them at my doorstep.

      hardbass 10 minutes ago

      What are the examples of evil tech?