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1. moolcool · 1790330681 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   1. sseagull · 1790332231 · focus · HN ↗

      I’ve been thinking lately how lots of tech people dunk on humanities and liberal arts, only to come to forums like this and discuss ethics, reality, and the nature of consciousness (at quite a shallow level)

      “Engineer’s disease” and all that.

      1. ChickeNES · 1790333079 · focus · HN ↗

         I don't have much against the humanities, but my social science sequence in college only taught me how bad psychology was as a field (being taught in biology how to read and weigh journal articles while simultaneously being assigned psych articles with tiny samples and dubious methodology...was amusing, to say the least).

         1. TheOtherHobbes · 1790334570 · focus · HN ↗

            Psych is supposed to be a science, not a humanity, and psych and social science are not remotely the same thing.

            1. ChickeNES · 1790335410 · focus · HN ↗

               First off, I never said that psychology was a humanity, you are conflating the two (and in fact, I was comparing the social sciences to the humanities, I'm not sure how you missed that?). This was a class, in the social sciences, for the social science sequence credit, /taught/ by psychologists and focusing on the mind. I think you'll find there are whole schools of psychology that are in the social sciences (the aptly named social psychology, for one).

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