Don't judge disciplines by surface outputs: a defense of the humanities in the AI era
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-23
The author criticizes an "almost anti-humanistic error": judging one's own field from the inside while reducing all others to a narrow class of legible outputs. He predicts that talk of certain disciplines dying within five years will prove wrong, argues the humanities have long been flattened by narratives of "economic value," and hopes they can regain a more central place.
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