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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.)
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-15 14:38:47)
@icedquinn @genmaicha @scathach all my electives were philosophy, yeah I am very familiar that you can be a much more rigorous thinker with a philosophy degree than much of computer science until you get into advanced mathematics

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-15 14:40:06)
@icedquinn @genmaicha @scathach that said even when I was focusing on feminist writing it was largely complete bullshit like judith butler or very very lightweight

Q.U.I.N.N.@icedquinn@blob.cat (2026-08-15 14:40:37)
@sun @genmaicha @scathach they're the same thing. math is logic in permanent abstract, philosophy is logic over human symbols. i'd guess the main difference is philosophy still has room to be loose where mathematics--being abstract--can afford to zot you for every imperfection