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Q.U.I.N.N.@icedquinn@blob.cat (2026-08-15 14:31:00)
@genmaicha @scathach there are a lot of politicians with doctorates because some fields like sociology practically let anyone have one of the damn things. hard sciences are extraordinarily less likely to let you get away with the "1+1, but feminism" kind of shit the soft sciences are full of.
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-15 14:33:16)
@icedquinn @genmaicha @scathach remember when "c plus equality" parody was so offensive that gitlab and github was whack a mole removing forks of it

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Q.U.I.N.N.@icedquinn@blob.cat (2026-08-15 14:37:27)
@sun @genmaicha @scathach there's honestly more intellectual rigor in a philosophy degree than compsci.

compsci is just vibe coding level trash programming in java and just accepting what you're told to do (rotate with quaternions because we said so, don't ask.) philo is still somewhat taught in the classical sense of read these books and construct a logical argument from it. i'd sooner just watch someone play factorio for a couple hours as an interview. it'll tell you more about their literacy than compsci degrees do (do they give up easy, do they derive or google stuff, do they use the shit they copied out of google correctly, do they actually refactor...) ill shut up about it but uh.

crypto especially and mathematics have a high amount of autodidacts comparatively. there's famous physicists who didn't have physics degrees. math of all things is the highest liklihood of someone operating at a competitive level who doesn't have one. (helps that math is explicitly self-evident with no trial cost; a proof is a proof, it cannot be bullshit, and coq/lean are free to verify them. the ONLY thing that matters in math is the proof holds.)