AI labs are hiring philosophers, the NYT says. The thread counted maybe two dozen (nytimes.com)
One reader tallied roughly twenty philosophers across every lab on earth, against thousands of engineers, and reckoned there are more economists than philosophers on the payroll. Another noted Starbucks employs orders of magnitude more philosophy graduates than all the labs combined.
Two reads of the actual job surfaced: 'hired to launder regulatory capture for a trillion-dollar corporation,' versus a Fortune 500 senior engineer who holds only a BA in philosophy and calls it the most underrated degree he owns.
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