This thread, tho 
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Into the fray I'll toss this post from the anonymous blog "100 Reasons NOT to Go to Grad School," along with a couple hundred comments on the unbroken spines on a mountain of academic work that died in the shell http://100rsns.blogspot.com/2013/03/89-virtually-no-one-reads-what-you-write.html …pic.twitter.com/9h8vwHCGFg
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Worst case: you spend years doing fun research. Turns out the results aren't worth reading. How does that imply 'shouldn't have done it'?
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I think the worst case is that you spend years doing work you don't particularly want to do, because your advisor has convinced you to do that work and you believe that's the only path to the career in academia you think you want... otherwise, difficult to explain the bitterness
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lol, you should debate Alan Kay :)
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(on going to grad school, i mean. i will be speaking with him re: college/grad school in a few weeks)
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Ill throw out a counter point. “Pursuing a Ph.D. is the only way to spend 4 to 8 years being paid to work on something that the market does not directly value in the short term.” http://www.pgbovine.net/practical-reason-to-pursue-PhD.htm …
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Some people would die to have access to academic journals for free or low cost: In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet,
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and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz …
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this really isn't true of science as far as I can tell, most decent papers do get read I think this is more true in the humanities, because the niches are smaller and less interconnected... nichier I guess
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tough, but very true
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