Oh the old halting problem recast to defend yourself. The problem is that it can be used to justify any course. How do you know that buggy whip science isn't go

Oh the old halting problem recast to defend yourself. The problem is that it can be used to justify any course. How do you know that buggy whip science isn't going to be useful? Why some EMP may trash the CPUs in cars and then buggy whip science learners will be in big demand. For those of us without infinite tape/time to simulate our undergraduate years, we have to make tough calls. You can call it a trade to try to elevate the science. You can imagine hypothetical futures when something become useful. You can suggest that it informs some other decision. Those are all fair rhetorical positions. I'm just saying that there's plenty of information in the modern curriculum that's just not useful to most people pursuing most careers.