It's not that humanities are useless, but that humanities have extremely high variance.
Although I cannot endorse the dichotomy between humanities and sciences, let's provisionally divide them this way: scientific ability follows a normal distribution, while humanities ability follows a power law distribution.
An interesting observation: great politicians and major speculators are all linguistic-logical geniuses with philosophical talent. They can understand the rules of the world and create new rules from nothing.
Computer science defines code, while philosophy defines meaning itself. Humans
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