Ambitious students seeking a future-proof technical education should major in philosophy
willcb · x · 2026-09-21
The author offers a contrarian take: ambitious college students who want a genuinely future-proof technical education should seriously consider majoring in philosophy. The implicit argument is that as AI absorbs concrete technical skills, the reasoning, argumentation, and abstraction trained by philosophy become harder to replace.
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