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Summary: YOUR Ph.D. means almost next to nothing, but collectively they expand the bounds of human knowledge.
Do you have to live so relentlessly in reality?
Don’t we all?
Sometimes I wonder.
Some admit to it. Others prefer the blue pill.
As a parent to five, yes. All shall join me.
If I didn’t have to I wouldn’t be doing it.
Are you a soulist?
I know a guy with a PhD in medieval agriculture with a specific focus on cows. He’s one of my brothers wife’s friends.
This guy devoted his life to ye olde english cow farts.
He’s struggling for employment as one might expect.
whereas I , with my bachelors degree in clowning, have been head hunted for my last two corporate jobs.
You are now CEO of FTX
Who even funds degrees like that?
You end up with fewer job prospects than a GED
Frustrating to say the least. I feel my PhD accelerated learning in all directions. Not from the program content itself, but the skills involved in the ingestion of high volumes of dense information. This idea that the borders of my world don’t extend past some yadda yadda about some tiny subclass of a field is some silly goosery.
Can those “skills involved” be learned elsewhere? Sure, this is just the path I took. Can phDoctors be single minded or general idiots? Sure, I’m an idiot. Do we need some single minded people? Sure, amazing things can be accomplished by singular focus.
But it isn’t a mandatory condition or experience of a floppy hat assed (sword in some countries) recipient of this degree.
I kind of hate this image. Its like a way to discredit all the learning done in the formative elementary/high school years. If I would guess, 60-70% of everything I have learned was in high school and thats with me having several published papers.
To be fair, most of “all human knowledge” is stuff like when the last time was that each person on the planet pooped.
Nobody knows when I pooped last. It was some time today, but I don’t remember when, and no one else ever knew.
You only THINK we don’t know
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One of my professors used to refer to it as:
Bull Shit
More Shit
Piled High and Deep
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Last cell:
What is this, a PhD for ants?
*image not to scale
I love this
I’ve been looking for this image for what feels like years lol. Ty.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explained.
This is the exact same concept that hentai artists use because they don’t know how women’s anatomy works
People can make dents in the outer shell of human knowledge without having PhDs though. As in to discover something new and revolutionary, plenty of great scientists have and likely many more will continue to.
