I also wished we had an academic world that valued that advancement of a field that wandering the world in thought and then showing up with a ground changing wo

I also wished we had an academic world that valued that advancement of a field that wandering the world in thought and then showing up with a ground changing work was enough to get a Phd. It's hard to imagine a new Wittgenstein in the world, even with LW's connections, being able to show up at 40 years old with a work in hand, defend it and walk away with a PhD.