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Why is "Doctor of Philosophy" the correct certificate of "becoming expert in a topic"?

That's a radical departure from "PhD" being a certificate that someone is qualified to produce new research.

What you describe is more like a Masters Degree.


I'm not sure why an advanced degree is necessary for that at all, besides the pride of a vanity title. It's pretty much what Bill Nye does for science.

I think you have misunderstood.

PhD has nothing to do with expertness.

If you have a PhD, you have completed some kind of research training.

That's all there is. Says nothing about knowledge or whether or not you're a genius.

You cannot conclude anything else, and nobody claims that you can.

If someone has a PhD, they have some training in doing research.


Looks like @gowld is agreeing with you.

That's not true. It's pretty clear that she meant "do something you knew they were going to say no to and now you are trying to get away with something."

https://youtu.be/wHdHCoeUbU4?t=861s

> So I want to tell something to all the young people here on many many occasions you'll find it is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. You do it then when somebody comes after you and say are you supposed to do that, "oh gee I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that" ... so just remember it's frequently much easier to apologize than it is to get permission do it

She goes on further, explaining how to deceive your superiors to manipulate them to get what you want.


But I still don’t think that means eat all the cookies in the cookie jar and then apologize after because nobody would have given permission. That’s still about doing what you believe to be right. She even frames the fallout as “where you supposed to do that?” and not “you shouldn’t have done that”.

Analogies only go so far, but I think eating the cookies in the cookie jar is the wrong one, because you're only feeding yourself with that one. If you're stealing flour from the baker to make a surprise cake for the whole troupe to enjoy, then you can apologize later, instead of asking first and ruining the surprise.

Damn no wonder she got a supercomputer named after her

Also, the fact that both are very unusual from a spelling perspective makes it an easy human mistake.

Criminal law may be lagging or inapplicable. (Crimes require "mens rea", a "guilty mind")

Tort law is very general: Contribute toward harming someone -> civil suit for damages $$$


Not all crimes require a mens rea. Criminal negligence is a thing.

Why is a poorly written forum comment on the front-page as a top link?


its like your average facebook post


Updated Sept. 11, 2026 9:49 am ET is less than 30 minutes ago


Do you consider every trial defendant to be exonerated?

Any indictment of LLM needs to distinguish LLM from pocket calculators and books. Calculators and books quietly made reasearch less collaborative.

Also, Waymo is an automated taxi service, so it's an exteremly misleading analogy. Taxis existed before Waymo.


Currently, the leader of USA national AI policy (Trump admin and OpenAI) is a history Bachelors with no technical training or advanced training of any kind, Dean Ball.

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