[TeMPOraL]

> Philosophy has been a waste of time since Socrates and it's provided nothing of value that you can't learn from functional programming

As far as I can tell it's mostly true, at least if you substitute "functional programming" for "theory of computation, probability theory and neuroscience". It's no failure of people back then that they didn't have the abstractions we have now. But we shouldn't also pretend they really understood something better without the mental and formal frameworks we have today.

Today we're turning philosophical problems into engineering ones. That's why we can finally get results (and that's why STEMs sound smug). Oh, and nowdays we can scan some answers to philosophical questions right out of the human brain, so there's that.