As Plato wisely put it: "the purpose of knowledge is to learn whatever is most useful to the rich, so they will pay you well for serving them."
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Actually, we need to study philosophy so we don't automatically assume the word "worth" in this sentence is exactly identical to "lifetime earning potential", you fucking tool.pic.twitter.com/clXktlXVUO
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Norbert Weiner wrote in 1962 that step 1 of any AI initiative basically ought to be thinking extremely long and hard about every single way what you're considering doing with AI might go disastrously wrong. 50+ years of AI later they're finally considering doing it?
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Since Computer Science is just Applied Philosophy, this argument is mis-cast. What is a Turing Machine other than a philosophical thought experiment? Why does Intel employ formal logicians to verify hardware designs? Why has Russell’s type theory driven programming theory?
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Someone stole this man's lips.
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While you're right, can you send me a link? It'd be great news if I'm not racking up all this student debt to not get a job.
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