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Comment author: Lumifer 05 October 2015 06:12:03PM 7 points [-]

Ha!

"In this paper, I take the position that a large portion of contemporary academic work is an appalling waste of human intelligence that cannot be justified under any mainstream normative ethics."

Out of Harvard, no less.

Comment author: SolveIt 06 October 2015 08:30:20PM 1 point [-]

Does he know which portion is the waste of intelligence?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 06 October 2015 09:59:27PM 1 point [-]

You can't know which. You can only infer from the overall effect I'd guess.

Comment author: SolveIt 07 October 2015 08:35:35AM *  1 point [-]

I agree. I was flippantly making a point on the lines of this quote

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

-John Wanamaker-

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