Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:

Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.

I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, _we_ dealt with hard, measurable facts, while _those_ people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?

But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.

Mea culpa.

@juergen_hubert You can relax. A major movement in the #Humanities argued for half a century that Truth and Facts were meaningless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy

#academia

Postmodern philosophy - Wikipedia

@mrundkvist ...are you sure? From what I understand, they have argued against universal "truths", but not against facts as such.

But then again, I am not a philosopher by training. #philosophy

@juergen_hubert This was not a movement primarily among philosophers, but was widely fashionable among all kinds of humanities scholars in the 80s and 90s. I mainly encountered it in my own discipline, #archaeology. There was a widespread attitude or pose that the concept of a scientific fact was politically and philosophically naïve.

#academia

@juergen_hubert @mrundkvist Yeah, this typically PoMo criticism fells always short. This is a really great book that tries to inform the reader what those 'postmodern' thinkers were trying to do and which thoughts came before those guys. Recommended for this whole discussion.

@wackJackle @juergen_hubert

I don't wan't to know *more* about pomo philosophy. Or about philosophy at all. I wish it had never been my misfortune to encounter it in my archaeological work.

@mrundkvist @juergen_hubert Then maybe stop with your uninformend broad criticism which won't stand up against a book like this!? Just saying.