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
i agree with you generally, but i think you're being a bit too kind to academic philosophy

a lot of it *is* bullshit, entire departments and subdisciplines are ruled by self-aggrandizing careerists with zero interest in "critical thinking"

this much has been incredibly obvious in the way that powerful and influential figures have flexed their muscles to defend "philosophical" transphobia and other reactionary hogwash against all analysis and critique

@juergen_hubert
as much as silicon valley is full of intellectually-hothoused "autodidacts" who've fallen in with the rationalist cult, the humanities and social sciences have also barfed forth numerous reactionary dipshits and crypto-fascists who happily march alongside them