It's not that humanities are useless, but that humanities have extremely high variance.
Although I cannot endorse the dichotomy between humanities and sciences, let's provisionally divide them this way: scientific ability follows a normal distribution, while humanities ability follows a power law distribution.
An interesting observation: great politicians and major speculators are all linguistic-logical geniuses with philosophical talent. They can understand the rules of the world and create new rules from nothing.
Computer science defines code, while philosophy defines meaning itself. Humans are not mechanical, and even artificial intelligence is not mechanical. Philosophy has created the way we understand "meaning," thereby completing our comprehension and manipulation of the masses.
The power to produce narrative and meaning has shifted from priests to churches to philosophers to academic institutions, and has now fallen into the hands of politicians, entrepreneurs, and financial speculators. Whoever can become the "great priest" of the era controls power.
And the next question: will AI become a producer of meaning?
It's not that humanities are useless, but that humanities have extremely high variance.
Although I cannot endorse the dichotomy between humanities and sciences, let's provisionally divide them this way: scientific ability follows a normal distribution, while humanities ability follows a power law distribution.
An interesting observation: great politicians and major speculators are all linguistic-logical geniuses with philosophical talent. They can understand the rules of the world and create new rules from nothing.
Computer science defines code, while philosophy defines meaning itself. Humans are not mechanical, and even artificial intelligence is not mechanical. Philosophy has created the way we understand "meaning," thereby completing our comprehension and manipulation of the masses.
The power to produce narrative and meaning has shifted from priests to churches to philosophers to academic institutions, and has now fallen into the hands of politicians, entrepreneurs, and financial speculators. Whoever can become the "great priest" of the era controls power.
And the next question: will AI become a producer of meaning?