Paul Graham: Would you major in philosophy again at what? Cornell? No, I would not. Why not? Didn't it allow you to think at a very general level? Well, it's hard to say. It's good to be able to take ideas and flip them around like a Rubik's Cube and take them apart. But I don't think I actually learned that in philosophy classes. He says he mistakenly thought that you could just go and learn the most abstract truths.

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