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> "Lead author Kitty Xu, formerly a Johns Hopkins graduate student and now a researcher at the social media site Pinterest" Well that's depressing.
by untilHellbanned 9y ago
> "Lead author Kitty Xu, formerly a Johns Hopkins graduate student and now a researcher at the social media site Pinterest"
Well that's depressing.
- bitwize 9y agoThink of it this way: at least she found a way to pay down her student loans.
- codingdave 9y agoGot a degree, then got a job. That isn't depressing. That is what people do.
- segmondy 9y agoWhat's depressing about that? I know unemployed graduate students. I've taken cabs driven by PhD grads.
- euyyn 9y agoYou haven't succeeded in making it any less depressing. I didn't take it to mean that the author was at some depressing place. Rather than it's sad in general that people trained to do that kind of research aren't able to keep doing it and advancing science.
- deeg 9y agoI presume (perhaps wrongly) that the parent finds it worrisome that Pinterest is hiring neuroscience researchers with a background of knowing how to change peoples' minds. On the other hand Kitty Xu is almost certainly a very smart person and Pinterest just likes hiring really smart people.
- isoskeles 9y agoI presume that the parent finds it worrisome that Johns Hopkins University (prestigious, academic, intelligent, good) can't compete, on employing neuroscience researchers (intelligent, valuable, academic, good), with Pinterest (dumb, corporate, useless, bad). But it's a mystery for now.
- bigbugbag 9y agoIt's not pinterest and Kitty Xu, the trend for advance in neuroscience and understanding of brain mechanisms is to be applied in marketing and advertising to influence and manipulate people's minds. Basically exploiting knowledge on how our brain works against us to profit a few among the richest instead of trying to improve everything for everyone. This kind of behaviour is considered a marker of a declining civilization on the verge of collapsing, so yeah it's worth worrying about.
- pboutros 9y agoHow is that depressing? - Researcher.
- pzone 9y agoI can imagine a site like Pinterest has quite a lot of fascinating data for a researcher to work with.
- interfixus 9y agoWith the exact same quote in the clipboard, I came here to make the exact same comment. It is depressing.
- rusk 9y agoWell I have to say, having been on Pinterest just about a week ago that it’s a refreshingly mellow place a world apart from the burning rubbish fire of most social media
- bigbugbag 9y agoPinterest is among the website I dislike the most for their antifeatures and usual "social" trickery.