Let’s make this testable. Tell me what percentage of technical people, defined however you like, generally view philosophy as a waste of time. (This could even be a thought experiment for now.)
Of these people how many of them come to their conclusion based on careful reasoning? Based on broad knowledge of philosophy?
My prior expectation would be that these numbers are very low. I would expect that people who dismiss philosophy do so from a position of relative ignorance.
This is not blame; the broader context matters: educational curricula, teaching quality, life experience, curiosity, competing interests, etc.
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot. How much applied computer science is worth reading? If you put a typical example of it in front of me (the code professionals write for example), I’m probably going think it is a hot mess. It becomes more bearable if I interpret it as a sequence of economically and culturally constrained suboptimal decisions. The same goes for philosophy.
Of these people how many of them come to their conclusion based on careful reasoning? Based on broad knowledge of philosophy?
My prior expectation would be that these numbers are very low. I would expect that people who dismiss philosophy do so from a position of relative ignorance.
This is not blame; the broader context matters: educational curricula, teaching quality, life experience, curiosity, competing interests, etc.
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot. How much applied computer science is worth reading? If you put a typical example of it in front of me (the code professionals write for example), I’m probably going think it is a hot mess. It becomes more bearable if I interpret it as a sequence of economically and culturally constrained suboptimal decisions. The same goes for philosophy.