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It is particularly infuriating to me that he signed every email he sent to MIT's CSAIL mailing list that way. MIT doesn't issue honorary doctorates, on principl
by geofft 7y ago
It is particularly infuriating to me that he signed every email he sent to MIT's CSAIL mailing list that way. MIT doesn't issue honorary doctorates, on principle.
(And of course the result was everyone called him "famed MIT computer scientist" and was asking about him being a professor when he had no paid affiliation with MIT for decades.)
- justforyou 7y agoThat's an incredibly minor thing to find infuriating. You might want to seriously examine the mechanisms which inform that emotion.
- geofft 7y agoWell, I went to MIT, I worked hard to get a degree (and not even a doctorate) there, I was on the mailing list because it was the mailing list for my own department, and I watched this guy email the list basically every other day with some inane comment signed "Dr. Richard Stallman," often with a lot of genuinely smart people patiently explaining to him why he was wrong, none of whom he would pay any attention to. Is that enough examination for you, or would you like more?
- justforyou 7y agoThat makes a lot more sense to be infuriated by and is very different from getting worked up over the appropriation of two sylables.