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It'd be great if more people had the audacity to say they've solved all problems in an academic field and then leave that field, instead of referring to that popular image that shows how your PhD is only a small dent/addition to the large circle of human knowledge.

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I also wished we had an academic world that valued that advancement of a field that wandering the world in thought and then showing up with a ground changing work was enough to get a Phd.

It's hard to imagine a new Wittgenstein in the world, even with LW's connections, being able to show up at 40 years old with a work in hand, defend it and walk away with a PhD.

It's easier to do that when your field is relatively obscure, and when you're wrong.

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