You misread Steve Yegge's post and you're accusing me of a bait and switch. Just read the post. > as in we need to take professionally trained philosophy gradu

You misread Steve Yegge's post and you're accusing me of a bait and switch. Just read the post. > as in we need to take professionally trained philosophy graduates more seriously and bring them into the software industry so they can help us make better software. Really? Where does it say that, or anything like it? You're reacting to something you made up - not something that the post actually said. It doesn't demand professional philosophers anywhere. It demands "great thinkers" and five of the eight people listed as examples aren't professional philosophers. It is directed at telling the audience "you might be" a great thinker, so go to it. This whole thread you're reacting to your imagined resentful philosophy major instead of taking the time to comprehend the post on its own terms.