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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This might just be a type of confirmation bias. The only PHDs from "then" that you know about are the ones worth recording in history books or have long-lasting impacts. Everyone else just gets forgotten

[–] karmiclychee 32 points 3 months ago

Survivorship bias, I think

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I actually had an offer from my advisor to study for a PhD under him by basically taking on a major coding project to develop a non toxic format of social media, or at least to get as close to that as possible. I also remember it involving some non crypto uses of blockchain software potentially but my prof was more interested in the complex web development aspects of it and actually got my web design professor in on pitching the potential for it to me.

We had me enroll in a master's level web design class to trial run it, and it turned out I wasn't the webcode wunderkind they thought I might be given my good web design work for my courses so far. I'm creative but not a savant basically. We all agreed that my PhD potential was best sought after more design experience got under my belt.

[–] sbv 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought the whole deal with PhDs was that they were supposed to be new research that pushes the field forward. What field were you studying? What was the academic contribution the prof was expecting?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Software Engineering, and it was more intended as a build project than as an academic venture. We would basically have been setting out to strip out all the addiction features Social Media is built with and see what can be built with what's left and what new ideas can make it a good experience for the user without queuing them for ranked rage fest matches against whoever else is in the comment section they clicked on in the rage bait article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's more like social engineering :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Cool. Is there any Alpha version we can follow for updates?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

That's not how PhD's work in any scientific field

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's more of a Masters or first year PhD.