It is interesting and surprising. Also extremely toxic. That blogpost caused not one but two redditors to write lengthy attack threads on me. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=6639 http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=6663
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Getting a PhD would cost me 100s of thousands of dollars in lost income due to opportunity cost (compared to private sector employment in tech). All to do some better educational signaling? To teach at universities that would never hire me? It doesn't sound very good.
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he didn't say it would be good *for you*!
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Haha. That is true. The credibility boost would be useful but IMO not worth the time cost. And people with impeccable formal credentials still get harshly attacked anyway, so they aren't that useful. Critics just choose the easiest thing to lock on.
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I leave that fight to good people like you. ;) I don't want to work in academia, that's an insane place!
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