It's not that the humanities are useless, but rather that they have extremely high variance.

Although I cannot endorse the dichotomy between liberal arts and sciences, let's make that distinction for the sake of argument. Scientific ability follows a normal distribution, while humanities ability follows a power law distribution.

An interesting observation: great politicians and great speculators are all linguistic-logical geniuses with philosophical talent. They can understand the rules of the world and create new rules from nothing.

Computer science defined code, while philosophy defined meaning itself. Humans are not mechanical, and neither is artificial intelligence. Philosophy created the framework for understanding "meaning," which completed the cognition and manipulation of the masses.

The power to produce narrative and meaning has transferred from priests to churches to philosophers to academic institutions, and has now fallen into the hands of politicians, entrepreneurs, and financial speculators. Whoever can become the era's "high priest" controls the power.

And the next question: will AI become a producer of meaning?