Has anyone written a piece on humanities envy among tech bros? The fact that one of the first things they did was go, “AI can write prose! No more writers! YES! And it can make pictures! No more artists! HAHA!” instead of just focusing on AI’s ability to do STEM stuff is so telling.

Their hubris/envy re medicine & diagnosis is telling: w/ rare exceptions, techbros are complete inversion of human skills required in physicians who actually serve patients. Though AI shows huge promise re finding patterns in data, the belief it can *replace* physicians & nurses is lethal arrogance.

Social media is basically sympathy bot that tells you how to feel. Makes sense corps would take all the parts of being human and monetize them into apps.

Had a new computer teacher at our school several years go. 1st time teacher. Kids happy to have him. I’d been teaching about 20 years at this point. He told the kids to “stay out of those Mickey Mouse classes Mrs C teaches. All you’ll ever need now is STEM.” (I taught history & humanities). 🤬

IME as a humanities guy working in tech, humanities are considered effete and chaotic and need to be contained and controlled

I have no idea about envy but LLMs are very good at writing code. Enough that I am scared for software engineering as a career. Of course it can’t do everything but it can do like 75% of what I need.

spcl given that it's actl really useful as a coding tool

Those who don't understand art apparently have a desperate need to piss all over it.

I think with some it may not be envy but arrogance and disrespect. "Pushing words together is easy. I could be a great writer too if I weren't more interested in this super meaningful tech thing I'm doing to improve the world."

Don't kid yourself. It can't do STEM stuff either.

So we're revisiting the Two Cultures again are we?