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there is a skill to asking tough questions in a friendly way and we'd all be better off if it were more widely distributed
noamI think academic philosophy has gotten a lot less overtly mean over the last couple decades, and that’s overall good. But it is sorta *weird* that as a result a lot of people sorta linger in the hallway after talks to whisper ‘that was shit, right?’ to one another