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quantumHazer ◴[] No.44625120[source]
I'm going a little offtopic here, but I disagree with the OPs use of the term "PhD-level knowledge", although I have a huge amount of respect for antirez (beside that we are born in the same island).

This phrasing can be misleading and points to a broader misunderstanding about the nature of doctoral studies, which it has been influenced by the marketing and hype discourse surrounding AI labs.

The assertion that there is a defined "PhD-level knowledge" is pretty useless. The primary purpose of a PhD is not simply to acquire a vast amount of pre-existing knowledge, but rather to learn how to conduct research.

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1. ramraj07 ◴[] No.44632846[source]
Except during the data science craze of 2015s, there was never a situation that you could just have a phd in any field and get any "phd level job", so whatever pedantic idea you have of what phds learn, not a single person who's hiring phds agrees with you. On the contrary, even most phd professors treat you as only a vessel of the very specific topic you studied during your phd. Go try to get a postdoc in a top lab when your PhD was not exactly what they work on already. I know I tried! Then gave up.