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John Pfaff

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I get the instinct to mock “ChatGPT-5 will be PhD smart” w self-deprecating jokes abt how ppl w PhDs aren’t actually smart. But given the total contempt that AI Grifters hold for all forms of expertise, think the proper response is “fuck you, your parlor trick will have nothing like our expertise.”

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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I get he instinct, I do! I think most PhDs are instinctively self-deprecating, bc we live in a society that claims to be a meritocracy but is defensively socially derisive against those w actual academic expertise. (“Egghead,” “nerd,” “not a real doctor.”) Don’t play into that, esp not now.

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Sherman Dorn's avatar Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com
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Or just voice what @audreywatters.bsky.social would observe: that was a pitch, not a prediction

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