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What’s a tweet that would get certain people to unfollow you that you’d actually be okay standing behind? You should probably tweet it. Not to cultivate a perverse repulsiveness for its own sake, but to help people correctly flip bozobit on you by their standards.
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I think it's a mistake to encourage more people to go into science. Also, many fewer people should be getting science PhDs. Leaving after a master's degree should be the default for science grad students, with relatively rare exceptions.
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I think that the vast majority of PhD students just need a taste of research plus a few advanced technical courses. But they get stuck in a 6+ year slog, even when it's clear that they aren't going to become professional researchers.
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Also, dare I say, more of them should just become engineers instead. It fits a much wider and more common brain type. Pickup truck over bespoke finely tuned race car versions of the scientific sensibility. It’s easier to have fun as one of the proles too.
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Not sure I agree about the "brain type" thing, but there is definitely a broader need for engineers than for scientists, and a much wider variety of career options.
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Well i suck st both so what do I know. My neurotype is probably mathematician brain but very mediocre quality. That’s why I ended up in control theory which is basically applied math.
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That was *exactly* my response to undergrad control and the reason I went down that road for PhD despite only getting a B in the class (IITs grade harshly in a curve and I was a slacker too, to be fair). Despite 8 years in the field it mostly still seems like magic.