Jennifer Mulligan: I try to tell people this but no one believes me. They know a lot about some very specific things but some can't negotiate the real world at all.

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

Also, I been drinking with some of the greatest minds of my generation. PHD level intelligence is not the brag they think it is.

I try to tell people this but no one believes me. They know a lot about some very specific things but some can't negotiate the real world at all.

I know a guy with a PhD in astrophysics who thinks that liberals worship homosexuals.

I have most of a PHD and regularly put stuff in the microwave that shouldn’t go in the microwave. I have destroyed so many mugs.

See this is why I just learn little bits of knowledge from all sorts of areas. This has the negative drawback of making me unemployable lmao.

Yeah but it means we rock at trivia nights!

Jack of all trades and master of none is still much better than a master of one (and that's the original quote!)

not for my wallet it ain't

True because under capitalism, having a wide variety of skills is frowned upon, which is why they muddy the waters by changing these quotes to mean the exact opposite of their intent.

dw phds are unemployable too

Knowing a little bit about a lot of things is my curse as well

This is why D&D has intelligence and wisdom as two different stats. 😅

As a fighter I embrace neither, only the blade

For your dissertation defense, you have to pick out a microwavable mug like it's the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I may have to pivot my entire study into the phenomenology of microwavable ceramics

The majority of my colleagues have doctorates and cannot figure out how to digitally sign a PDF

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