it doesn't do much to discourage me from dilettantism when a shitpost i toss out after reading half of the introduction to a book and two thirds of a Wikipedia article turns out to be a key observation of a major work by a respected scholar in the field
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Maybe specialists are miners and dilettantes are window shopping jewelry stores
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Epistemic Dilettante, poisons groundwater using one simple fracking trick!
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"Let's hold back this data for another paper later in the year" - PI looking to artificially inflate the value of data "Research is a Girl's Best Friend" - university brand manager "I can haz apartheid research money?!" - space car manufacturer
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Alternatively, the field yall are operating it is less than stamp collecting and the "real specialist job" is feigning profundity
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Even better if one consistently wonders whether or not their own profundity is feigned. My M Night Shyamalan Theory of Introspection.
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