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dingnuts
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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay B...
I'm a lowly high school diploma holder. I thought the point of getting a PhD meant you had done something novel (your thesis).
Is that wrong?
kadushka
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My phd thesis, just like 99% of other phd theses, does not have any “truly novel” ideas.
margalabargala
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Just because it's something that no one has done yet, doesn't mean that it's not the obvious-to-everyone next step in a long, slow march.
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