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I recently ran into the term victorian gentlement scientist while reading about John and immediately thought "wow, that's what I want to do when i grow up!": to be a gentlement scientist (unfortunately, I think I missed the boat on the victorian part).

A couple days later, I ran into Nadia's formulation and her experience with her PhD. I wrote about Nadia's work in the past, so was super excited when I found how she thinks about her work.

It is great when you find a name that describes a concept that you are excited about: makes articulating easier and gives you validation that you are not alone.

It is even cooler when you learn that a lot of the people that you admire subscribe to the term.

I feel like a lot of what I'm interested in fits this class of inquiries. Here are a few investigations that make me feel a bit like a victorian gentlement scientist, in reverse chronological order of inquiry:

• Can propositional theories be evolved?
• Can theories be evolved?
• Was ageing invented?
• Are you me? And am I you?
• Do we re-incarnate?
• What causes darwinism?
• Can machines think?
• Am I a scientist?
• What should papers look like post-computers?
• Mathematically, what makes good APIs?
• What are the economics of being an adult?
• What's the relationship between verbs?
• Is intelligence born or acquired?
• Do I expect power to be distributed unequally?
• Why do I give up early so often?
• Can machines add?

Do you identify as a gentlement scientist too? If so, lets hang out!