pianoforte611 comments on Why I Am Not a Rationalist, or, why several of my friends warned me that this is a cult - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pianoforte611 14 July 2014 12:45:44AM 34 points [-]

Convincing someone not to pursue a PhD is rather different than convincing someone to drop out of a top-10 PhD program to attend LW training camps. The latter does indeed merit the response WTF.

Also, there are lots of people, many of them graduate students and PhD's themselves, who will try to convince you not to do a PhD. Its not an unusual position.