extreme_orang 9 hours ago | next |

Good article. Definitely worth reading in conjunction with this one https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-computing-belongs-within-t...

keernan 6 hours ago | root | parent |

I couldn't get far reading the article you linked because it starts off trying to sell the idea the 2008 financial crisis was due to "the problem lay in a worldview that seemed to work for a while … until it didn’t."

The 2008 financial crisis was due to fraudulent activity by a group of people at a series of banks who became very very wealthy making loans to unqualified borrowers because the banks didn't intend to keep the loans on their books and instead, for the first time, came up with the idea of securitizing the loans (selling tranches of groups of mortgages of varying quality that were marketed as mutual funds... there is more to the story - including AIG providing false security and Moody's providing fraudulent risk ratings) ... but the point is, it was one of the biggest fruads in American history that nearly brought about a financial disaster bigger than the 1930s depression - without any criminal charges against those who made billions of dollars in the scheme.

I can't get past someone selling the idea that the 2008 crisis was because of some "worldview" and then going on to try to tell me the same thing applies now.

This has nothing to do with teaching ethics. I don't have much confidence that people involved in finance at the levels of billion dollar transactions give a crap about what they were taught about ethics in school. The same goes about the future of LLMs (there is no such thing as AI - but LLMs are certainly transformative job wise) and the manner in which the billionaires will use LLMs to replace workers and increase profit margins.

greekanalyst 9 hours ago | prev |

Degrees that blend the humanities and computer science are certainly a positive development, especially in the "Age of AI" that we are living in.