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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 01:39:22AM 3 points [-]

Honorary doctorates are routinely handed out to random foreign dignitaries or people who donate money to colleges, and do not entitle the bearer to be called "Dr."

Kurzweil has 16 honorary doctorates plus the National Medal of Technology and he still gets written up as "Mr. Kurzweil".

Comment author: thomblake 20 July 2009 01:41:53AM 1 point [-]

Good point. At any rate, I'll keep an eye out for any doctorates by prior work from accredited schools and drop you a line.