[dantondwa]

As a stylistic note, it’s funny that philosophy graduates often can’t help but mention that they are one at every opportunity they have, as if that carried a particular a certain intellectual prestige. They do that while perhaps missing the point: a critical mind does not need to announce its status and does not rely on declarations of prestige to be one.

It’s also funny how a marvelously rational philosophy graduate can then support the most banal moral positions. The life of the mind is quite something.

[jhanschoo]

I don't think the author harps on it just to say "I am very smart", they want to point out that the degree to which Palantir employees then were acquainted with the Western philosophical canon and thought was unusual.

[kristofferg]

This applies to most graduates imo. and even more so phds. :)