Honestly I think the trick to "win" after getting a PhD is just writing a book for someone to go from 0-100 knowledge wise. "Here's everything I know so no one has to do this again. $50 to save you from a lifetime of student loans."
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @eigenrobot
Who's going to pay $50 for a pamphlet that says "don't do a PhD until you're independently wealthy"
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low-key judging you both
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wherrs the lie
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some people just want to learn lmao
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @eigenrobot and
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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Replying to @_molten_steel_ @eigenrobot and
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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Replying to @gypsy_panther @_molten_steel_ and
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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Replying to @eigenrobot @_molten_steel_ and
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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Replying to @replicaofself @eigenrobot and
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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Replying to @gypsy_panther @replicaofself and
tbh people do this online
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