I think one problem is a lot of people seem to like to call themselves philosophers because they then think that they can just think things without having to mo

I think one problem is a lot of people seem to like to call themselves philosophers because they then think that they can just think things without having to motivate or argue for them and usually accompany that with the normal bullshit argument that science doesn't explain everything(hey noone said it does and obviously there are loads of things to discover left, we just said it does a better job of explaining things than any other system of thought). However that's not what philosophy is, rather it is about arguing and thinking about stuff that can't be verified by experiments, it doesn't mean you can just say blahaba, that is mysticism. However I think there is great value in philosophy and everyone obviously does it more or less in their lives without studying at university. As far as hackers go: It has value for science, discussing the scientific method and clearing up expressions so that we can argue clearly and logically without fallacies. It has value for AI and robotics in discussing the morals of inventing intelligent/conscious systems and discussing if it is even possible or not.