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  • This is the entire point of academia though. If you were in a math PhD program you would have much better access to the resources to build the background knowledge you need to explore this topic, and then you would literally be paid to research it, and then possibly paid to manage a whole team of people interested the topic, and paid to teach classes on it and publish book chapters, and so on. People have this misconception (not saying you do, but this is a very common sentiment) that academia is this ivory tower which gate keeps knowledge, when the reality is that it’s just a framework for enabling knowledge discovery. The reason most people outside of academia don’t publish original research isn’t some conspiracy. It’s because engaging in original research is a full time job which often requires a lot of money and resources normal people don’t have.




  • I mean you could see him recognize that he fucked up in real time. He definitely knew better. It was the ensuing “heated gamer moment” excuse which really made it a meme. He should have just immediately and unambiguously acknowledged that he fucked up and taken real action to show remorse. This is a pretty common pattern with this kind of thing. You can’t do the whole “soft apology with a side of justification” and expect things to go back to normal. And this is just a life lesson in general - when you fuck up, you need to really lean into making a change.