Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech? Personally, I've been reading about how historical empires handled delegation and trust—who gets autonomy, who needs oversight, how that scales. Finding it weirdly applicable to how I think about system design and working with AI tools. Curious if others have pulled from history/humanities in ways that actually transferred. |
You can go too far with this, and waste time on taxonomy, but for the most part it's a good idea to subject your classes, variables, components to some kind of philosophical scrutiny.
(My degree was in English Literature though, which doesn't help as much, though I think I'm pretty good at naming variables. £40,000 well spent!)
Wittgenstein said the limits of language are the limits of the world after all
I'm envisioning the creation of an international collective, drawing inspiration from the underground movements of the 80s and 90s, but with a significantly broader scope, a stronger mission orientation, and a focus on impactful work that people can be proud of.
Essentially, I'm aiming to establish a digital family to drive a revolution, foster a cultural renaissance, establish new infrastructure, become a market leader, and create innovative solutions that are both compelling and reliable.
By the way, I really like your name, Amadeuswoo – a great combination!
Ciao for now,
It worked out ok in the end as you see the differences between arts and sciences - science courses collaboration was about getting the right answer most of the time, while arts was about defending your opinion
So the long term benefit has been my communication skills improved and helped me
If LLMs hallucinate enough it might also apply to managing them.