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Vmiss_rodent@girlcock.club
Oct 10, 2026, 8:54 PM
I think Einstein studied music pretty seriously too? less sure on that -
but, they, and honestly a lot of the Big Name Intellectuals/Academics did not have the sort of focused, hyperspecialized education most people tend to get now - they had a broad academic base, which included a lot of philosophy, a lot of 'how to think well', and specialized more on top of that base into fields like math and physics.
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Vmiss_rodent@girlcock.club
Oct 10, 2026, 8:59 PM
Not that specialization is inherently bad; especially now that a lot of the "easy" parts of a lot of fields are done, the amount of information you need to get through to be a "master" in a field is higher now than it was, we just know more from building on generations of previous work - so, to some extent, the bar is much higher to achieve a similarly broad understanding of the world.
But, learning to think well, reason, argue, draw logical conclusions, follow ideas to their end, is critical.
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