This article seems high on vibes, low on metrics.

> While a plain-vanilla philosophy degree remains as hard to monetize as ever, David Chalmers, a prominent philosopher of consciousness at N.Y.U., observes: “I think the demand for philosophers with A.I. training is, if anything, outstripping the supply right now. It’s an area I encourage students to go into. I think these issues with A.I. will be front and center for a good while.”

But wait, there's this:

> Beyond nonprofits like Eleos, most of the hiring has been concentrated at DeepMind and Anthropic, each of which employs at least a half-dozen philosophers.

So, between 6 and 12 each?

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taeric an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, it is hard not to immediately think of that meme. There are indeed dozens of them!

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mrhottakes 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This article seems high on vibes, low on metrics.

That's the in-house style for the WSJ

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alfiedotwtf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> a prominent philosopher of consciousness at N.Y.U., observes…

The irony

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fellowniusmonk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The revenge of the _nearly a dozen_ philosophers.

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Izkata 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Hey now, that might be infinite% growth compared to just a couple of years ago!

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consensus1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Philosophy majors. That piece of paper does not make you a philosopher.

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c7b 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

Bit of a tangent, but it's fun to think about how much it takes to become a -er, -ian or -ist in a given field. Philosophy is probably one of the hardest, you need to be seen as up there with the all-time greats. In history or physics you probably need to be faculty, in economics you need to have a PhD, in engineering you don't even need a degree but you need to be practicing,...

	▲	chasd00 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> you need to be seen as up there with the all-time greats when in school i hung out with a lot of architecture students. They were all told and taught that they will be the next Frank Lloyd Wright or a failure. Then they graduate and end up getting a job drawing construction documents for Taco Bell. Heh they're a pretty jaded bunch.