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> A career-ending disaster Why? Why should posting a stab at a complicated problem should be considered career-killing?
by js8 9y ago
> A career-ending disaster
Why? Why should posting a stab at a complicated problem should be considered career-killing?
- ianai 9y agoSeriously, best way to ensure people stop trying is to persecute attempts.
- openloop 9y agoWhat he said.
- shurcooL 9y agoI think he means if the stab is not serious but a troll. Of course, if it's a genuine and serious attempt, I don't think it should be frowned upon at all.
- adrianmonk 9y agoSome people will hold it against him because some people are too stupid to see things in context. Rather than respecting him for taking a smart risk in pursuit of an important goal, they will just remember that he was once wrong about something and in a big way. There are people who point at others' failures to bolster their own image by comparison. And there are people with fragile egos who are eager to see others in a negative way. It shouldn't be that way, but it sometimes is, so I wouldn't say the career risk is zero. But I'm still glad he's doing it regardless of the outcome.
- acchow 9y agoIs this really how the academic community is?
- __jal 9y agoThat's really how humanity is.
- demonshalo 9y agoGoes to show that even the even the so called "experts" are humans after all.
- dfabulich 9y agoIt's career "damaging" (I wouldn't say killing) because so many crackpots have attempted this problem that making a wrong attempt makes you look a bit like a crackpot.