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[DRAFT] Against grad school

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academe is something to exorcise; it needs to be lived, for a time - but lived in order to demonstrate that it is ultimately unlivable. There is a world elsewhere. “No insults, please!” said Pugg. “For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.” You sometimes see people say that “Abhinav won his PhD in 2019”. This is a solecism for “was awarded”, “earned”. no. The way to win is not to play. Nothing about this looks like you would want your epistemic authorities to be picked. There is no accuracy test, calibration. There is not even a good test of their explanations. It’s largely a profound test of patience. Which correlates with lots of epistemic virtues (nuance, scepticism, scholarship, design, depth) but is not one The employability or unemployability of PhDs is nearly irrelevant to me. It’s for producing new knowledge and virtue and cultural reproduction, output is a distant fourth. Some very angry very online people think

academe is something to exorcise; it needs to be lived, for a time - but lived in order to demonstrate that it is ultimately unlivable. There is a world elsewhere. ― George Watson “No insults, please!” said Pugg. “For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.” ― Stanisław Lem You sometimes see people say that “Abhinav won his PhD in 2019”. This is a solecism for “was awarded”, “earned”. no. The way to win is not to play. Ineffective Nothing about this looks like you would want your epistemic authorities to be picked. There is no accu

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