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One weird thing about blogging that I have realized is that I am much more aware of repetion than readers are...

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It's really kind of career-limiting in terms of my half-assed public intellectualizing. I tend to see a topic come around, and think "Meh, I wrote about that six months ago, I'll pass." Meanwhile your real professional pundits who make "Eff You" money on substack subscriptions write essentially the same column over again every six weeks or so...

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A few of them write the same one every day...

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Heey. I'll just repeat my comment then... :)

The evaluative piece of the work is what we use to determine professional hierarchies. I.e. there's a lot of money at stake.

The main argument against cheating is that it's hard to sustain consistently and thus truly influence your positioning and affect general outcome. Getting a B+ versus a B- in a single class (even an A+ versus a B-) is unlikely to have life altering effects.

But the easier it is to carry out, especially over time, the more worried we should be.

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