Jürgen HubertFeb 11, 2025

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.

Show threadLuigi 

@juergen_hubert this thread hits close to home for me. My Bachelor's is in Physics, but towards the end I developed a fascination for how things were discovered, and took a course in History of Physics, and then wrote my dissertation on it.

My fellow students were quite dismissive, thinking that I took an easy way out and "history of physics" was a cheap subject. "Almost humanities".

I am very happy about what I learned, and gave me better chances of survival in case of accidental time travel, and tools to make my historical rpg more accurate, but most of all it taught me the receiving point of view of this kind of dismissiveness.

(Not of pride: I got a prize from the Italian association for the history of physics and astronomy for my thesis)

Feb 20, 2025 at 8:06pmWeb