I wrote a response to this (in defense of philosophy) a few years ago at http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html. And here'

I wrote a response to this (in defense of philosophy) a few years ago at http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html. And here's the yc discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404707 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404707.