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Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

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Re: Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

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Post by IntronExon »

goatherders wrote: post #46
IntronExon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s from the “got lucky” school of billionairing, but he has the ego of a Jobs or Gates. A well funded blowhard in other words; your instincts are on target. That, and evaluating statements on their own (dubious in this case) merit is a good thing, always. Even very smart and accomplished people can say things which deserve careful scrutiny, and may come up short.

Lol. You guys crack me up. He built a company and sold it for a bucket of money. This board talks about trying to do that ALL DAMN DAY. He did it Lol.

...And? I’m not sure what your point is, other than trying very very hard to communicate your supposed amusement.

Re: Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

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Post by pkaye »

bdcravens wrote: post #43
pkaye wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubling an investment is not too hard over 20 years.

Except he sold his Yahoo stock pretty early so he then had to make decisions on how to invest and grow the cash.

He just needs to get 4% yield per year to double it in 20 years.

Re: Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

majos wrote: post #15

His argument seems to be that advances in AI will mean that software development itself is soon automated away, in which case a CS degree will be useless. Then, he advocates studying philosophy because this future will need "big picture" thinkers. I don't know how much substance there is to discuss here. It pretty much hinges on how you think AI will develop over the coming decades. I am skeptical that software devel…

Cuban may be good at marketing, but he has a very shallow grasp of tech in general. I remember his big solution to video piracy was to always release movies a super high resolution so people would have to download extremely large files. This "genius" never thought that pirates could just downsample the movie. If you go back you'll find much more of this quality "advice." I would think twice about whatever he has to say. He has lots of opinions but most are off the cuff without much thought.

Re: Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

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Post by arcaster »

mistermann wrote: post #69
freedomben wrote: post #22

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> from what I can tell its main selling point is that it teaches you to examine things in a critical way that's very aware of the argument in question, the assumptions made, and the structure the argument sits in. That's definitely a big (and important) part of it. There's an unfortunate dearth of critical thinking and examination of ideas these days. I have theories as to why that is, but it's out of scope for this…

> There's an unfortunate dearth of critical thinking and examination of ideas these days. I have theories as to why that is, but it's out of scope for this discussion so I will abstain. As someone who sees the same things but has no theories, I for one would like to hear a few of yours.

I feel like a majority of the regressive behavior Cuban sights emanates from existing sociology and philosophy programs at the university level...

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Post by zitterbewegung »

cre8 wrote: post #75
zitterbewegung wrote: post #9

I studied philosophy in College but got my CS degree. I think some guy called Paul Graham did so too. I think philosophy is useful for detecting if someone is lying to you or doesn't know what they are talking about. It does stress critical thinking in different ways than say studying math (I also studied math also). I can't really take what he is saying though at any serious level though and I don't believe what he…

I major in Math, so which did you think was more interesting?

I took Math and Philosophy (and studied higher math like Category theory and Knot Theory). I don't think one is more interesting than the other. I love them equally.
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