my paternal unit and I have the same basic """problem""" >be us >go to school for years and years >"well, I figured that stuff out and now Ive sort of lost interest" think he had a pretty subjectively-long working life :/
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some people just want to learn lmao
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is a PhD a good way to learn? Assuming you want to know something a little broader than a thesis would be
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I mean outside of the peeps on twitter most people I know seem to be pretty satisfied with their own but twitter is bizarre and attracts bizarre people. It's comfy, but odd.
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a large fraction of phds i know are . . . weirdly uncurious actually theres a kind of anti-interestingness filter somewhere along the way some cool folks make it through i think but i think theyre selected against :( idk conformity, lack of alienation, something
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maybe theres a really tight correlation between being interesting and being alienated
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like the minor character in The Dispossessed who goes around making fun of all of the conventions of the purportedly anarchistic society he was the best character
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i wish we lived in an actual society imagine: everyone's a professor they all teach one another every single subject everyone becomes a genius galaxy brain
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