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Tech Needs Humanists More

86 points · 148 comments · eigenBasis

  1. moolcool · · 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. pyrale · · focus · HN ↗
      > and now the world is run by tech executives who don’t have a clue.

      They do have a clue, what's missing is any sort of belief in the value of ethics.

      1. landdate · · focus · HN ↗
        Ethics are irrelevant. They lack a believe in God and without God nothing but evil and chaos may exist.
        1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
          Prove god first. If you succeeded, prove your specific god and why your special book is correct.
          1. landdate · · focus · HN ↗
            You mean the Abrahamic God who is worshipped by the three largest religions in the world across every continent? Yeah the majority have come to a conensus already, the details are what we are arguing over. I guess you didn't get the memo.

            Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Almost all the most important people in history, who built the world and defined the culture you were breed into, they were all wrong and you are right.

            And God is unknowable. There is a reason why there are a bunch of different religions and spiritual practices. If we could know God perfectly we would be God.

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