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Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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What's the Most Interesting Question in Your Field?

Most people specialize within some fields and even within some sub-sub-fields. If you ask me like my last academic paper that i wrote it was on a kind of controversy about Plato's hippiest minor i think people then would say yes. We intellectuals are actually typically given a pretty wide scope of task by our customers, funders etc they typically ask us more widely to say you know what's interestingwhat's important but we are responsible for answering that question at that scope okay i'm going to let it stop there all right nice talking yep tell me me to get off your back.

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