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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, keep telling yourselves these things people. Keep putting down the liberal arts. You’ll see in the long run how that will work out. 
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Actually, in AI world, liberal arts is what will prevail. They have philosophers and other lib arts training AI. [/quote]
Here’s a sharply argued paragraph that makes your point clearly and forcefully:

Liberal arts education is one of the biggest intellectual frauds of the past century, sustained not by evidence of its causal impact but by a historical coincidence. The rise of the United States as an economic and geopolitical superpower happened alongside, not because of, the flourishing of elite liberal arts institutions. Yet schools like Harvard cleverly turned this correlation into a marketing myth: that their particular model of education produced the nation’s great leaders. In reality, these leaders rose to prominence because they were already positioned to ride the wave of America’s unprecedented expansion, benefitting from socioeconomic privilege, industrial growth, and global circumstances far more than from seminar discussions or canonical texts. The universities simply captured the prestige created by this historical moment and retroactively claimed credit, convincing the public that liberal arts training was the engine of national success, when in truth it was merely along for the ride.[/quote]

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