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Whither Tartaria?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Status Incentives Within Fields

fields are definitely not trying to do this. You get status by appealing to other experts in your own guild. Doctor oz might be the most famous and publicly beloved doctor, but he has zero credibility in the medical field. Art is interesting because in some ways it's less about something than other fields are. Maybe there are real timeless aesthetic truths, but they're a lot harder to detect than the timeless truths of math or science. And you can do art history pretty well without worrying about them at all.

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