Post #3692547

2026-07-09 11:11 UTC

Another “AI fucked compsci grads” post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn’s algorithm) (because I’m still on that site for some fucking reason): Full Text study philosophy, not computer science data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that philosophy students have a lower unemployment rate (about 5.1%) than computer science students (7%) why? unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning are becoming premium assets, and better tech means companies increasingly DON’T need to ask “can we build this?”, and increasingly DO need to ask “should we build this, and what are the consequences?” If there has ever been a time to build those soft, truly human, skills, it is now. p.s. what do you think is the BEST skill to have right now - my thoughts are in the comments ___ This one’s attributing the decline to “unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets”, and her graph comes from The Economist’s Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist’s sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.

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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-07-09 16:18

Founder @ Egoist Machines, Inc. Or is that something more quirky, “Eqoist?” Sorry, if you’re making it that easy to misread while I’m having my morning caffeine, I’m not going to do you any favors

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-07-09 18:31

On one hand, Anthropic sourcing suggests that this is probably at least partially nonsense. On the other hand, though, if there’s any accuracy at all I’m going to spend the rest of my life infuriated that I went down the technical degree route and actively avoided a liberal arts education in order to improve my career outlook and then this happened. Like, I don’t think they were trying to mislead but I feel like every guidance counselor for kids ought to have a plaque in their office saying “please note that the world is complicated, ever-changing, and scary and I might actually have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about”.

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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-07-10 06:46

Nothing in my interactions with humanities types indicates they would be in a better position to handle either the educational slopnami or a slopped out job market. As far as educational systems go, “human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning” where always left to natural selection instead of being actively pursued. Taking a philosophy course on the history of logic an ethics isn’t the same as having any.

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