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Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is There a Difference Between an Intellectual and an Activist?

I'm interested in what I take to be maybe a divide between being an intellectual and being an activist so let's just say um an activist is somebody who seeks change trying to bring about change in the world. It seems to me those projects would somewhat pull them in different directions with respect to the norms that are core to being intellectual namely honesty one by contrast if they only pull them in a different direction with respect to like tertiary norms like give credit you know supposing act suppose activists couldn't give credit I'd be like that's okay you could be an activist intellectual because giving credit is not that important to being intellectual but keeping on this is really important, he says.

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