Except for ‘genius’. A PhD meant you will likely be extremely well ‘informed’ about a specific topic in a very narrow field. So well informed that you will be able to come up with ‘something’ worth saying even to others that are well informed in that same field. It’s a pretty low bar with an extremely high motivation/focus/effort requirement.
I think it’s similar to a job we were hiring for that was essentially cold calling companies too sell licenses for Microsoft. To apply you were required to have a BA. A BA in what, you might ask? Well that didn’t even make it onto the form we used. It was just a checkbox. It was literally a gauge to see if you’d been able to stick through a program like that.
Ha, that would make sense, but nope, the answer was ‘anything’. Animal husbandry or underwater basket weaving? Didn’t matter, just had to stapled to the letters BA.
So it will be an absolute genius about some very narrow field, and spout complete drivel about literally everything else?
Do I get to choose the PhD? Because an LLM that’s like, a biblical scholar or something, won’t help me very much.
Except for ‘genius’. A PhD meant you will likely be extremely well ‘informed’ about a specific topic in a very narrow field. So well informed that you will be able to come up with ‘something’ worth saying even to others that are well informed in that same field. It’s a pretty low bar with an extremely high motivation/focus/effort requirement.
I think it’s similar to a job we were hiring for that was essentially cold calling companies too sell licenses for Microsoft. To apply you were required to have a BA. A BA in what, you might ask? Well that didn’t even make it onto the form we used. It was just a checkbox. It was literally a gauge to see if you’d been able to stick through a program like that.
I’d just assume it was a BA in Microsoft Licensing. Surprised that doesn’t have its own college degree program.
Ha, that would make sense, but nope, the answer was ‘anything’. Animal husbandry or underwater basket weaving? Didn’t matter, just had to stapled to the letters BA.