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One of the painful things about having studied philosophy is experiencing the fact that nearly everyone on the Internet are absolutely sure having read a few paragraphs about the topic makes them an expert.
- I hope that one day people can call themselves philosophers without feeling cringey, because the world finally understands and respects it.
  
  For what it’s worth, as a non-philosopher, I absolutely agree that it’s a field that needs and deserves to be taken far more seriously by far more people.
  
  When I grow up, I want to work at the philosophy factory, making philosophies
- I think everyone with a niche skill experiences that to some extent. Almost all posts about mathematics on lemmy attract people acting like they understand what’s going on while making wrong claims lol, I only rarely see comments that are fully correct.
  
  Yeah I expect climate change scientists would roll their eyes pretty hard at my post as well =)
  
  I don't think I saw any math related post tbh, other than witty 3! = 6 one
  
  I guess me being a mathematician makes me notice them more. I’ve seen many in several communities, but me being biased makes me wish there were more.
  
  I just began math PhD program, maybe it becomes different after finishing it. Maybe we are in different communities? Mine is mostly this one, linux and programming.
  
  Different communities then I guess, I browse ‘all’ a lot.
- Hey, I'll have you know that I've read TWO paragraphs!
  
  Shit! We got an expert here! ;-)
- Same with studying anything and then seeing it mentioned on the internet.
  
  Very true
- Yeah, I’m an engineer myself, and even I can see that the take on philosophy here is really unnecessarily disparaging, and doesn’t even really fit well into the joke due to a rather meaningful lack of pertinence.
- You're right! I read a few paragraphs about this.
- My high-school class on philosophy concerned itself with formal logic (syllogisms, really) and a little ontology, though I have forgotten most of the ontological stuff again. I don't know just how much there is to know, so I don't know just how ignorant I am. But where other Internet philosophers pretend to know what they're talking about, I at least know that I don't.

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