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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 19

    one sign of the decline of academics is that they are now known for agreeing with each other about boring things. rather than spending their entire lives trying to murder one another over minutiae

    12:06 AM - 19 May 2021
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      1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 19

        the fact that various groups i interact with on twitter carry on the tradition of blood feuds about arcana speaks well of their Ferment

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      2.  🦌‏ @kilovh May 19
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        The great Rabbi known as the Chazon Ish once remarked that the students no longer threw lecterns across the study hall, as they did in the Lithuanian academies. Not because they had grown more emotionally refined, but because they no longer knew how to learn...

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      3. Epistemic Trespasser‏ @colonial_bot May 19
        Replying to @kilovh @eigenrobot

        This is excellent.

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      1. Reply Guy‏ @Sonnnk222 May 19
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        “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” -Wallace S. Sayre

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      1. MetaLevelUp‏ @MetaLevelUp May 19
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        It still happens sometimes in physics: I spent nearly three years of my academic career arguing (vehemently!) with a competing group about whether a certain process had a decay rate equal to exactly zero (their opinion) or if it was roughly 1/E^(10^(50)) but NOT zero (ours).

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      2. 六龙大君 Cultiral Literati (on the Jianghu scene)‏ @MencianLegalism May 19
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        The orangutan debate was the first sign of the rot. any redneck could tell you what it means, both the factions were being wrong on purpose & at some point they forgot the joke.

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      2. Joe ( 👻 in the machine)‏ @JoeClibbens May 19
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        was thinking good example of academic feud are different factions arguing about correct pronunciation of (formerly dead) Cornish language having to put aside differences to get funding and.. woahpic.twitter.com/bA35EW0wwH

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      3. carolus‏ @wntscarolus May 19
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        Make Anglia Gwynedd Again

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      1. NLRG Loves Recursive Guises‏ @NLRG_ May 19
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        ive spent the past month looking for ways to trash a paper that's almost identical to mine (but with some key errors! for starters, their instrument is-)

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