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On a humorous note OP, you seem like exactly the kind of guy who would get a kick out of this postmodern essay generator that a STEM professor wrote using a Recursive Transition Network in 1996:

https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

Every now and again, I come back to it for a good chuckle. Here's what I got this time (link to the full essay below the excerpt):

"If one examines subcultural capitalist theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject subdialectic cultural theory or conclude that the significance of the artist is significant form, but only if culture is interchangeable with art. It could be said that many desituationisms concerning the capitalist paradigm of context exist. The subject is contextualised into a presemanticist deappropriation that includes truth as a totality."

https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/?1298795365



I think that's how source code sounds to non-programmers. Too far removed from the meaning two distinguish, what makes sense and what is garbage.


That essay generator is pretty cool. There are definitely a lot of undergrads whose essays look about the same.


There is no dearth of midwittery in the non-STEM fields. I admit this is elitist and downright snobbish, but I am disgusted that somebody else can get a degree from the same university as me in a non-STEM major and piggyback off of prestige they didn't create.

In my opinion, it's stolen valor.


Perhaps you should value knowledge over status?


It doesn't matter what I value. The people who wanna hire me for jobs or invest in my fund value status.

There's a reason companies hire people they don't need: to make themselves look bigger to investors and in the case of law firms, clients.

Analyzing complex systems from first principles and challenging decisions that have no good reason is a noble cause, but it's only useful if you have the authority to make the changes. I'm not dictator of the world, I don't get to dictate how customers, clients, or employers shall make their business and hiring decisions.




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