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This may still be the case, but it’s definitely less true than it was in, say, 2005. Today’s closest equivalent IMO is ad/surveillance tech. Maybe management co
by tfehring 6y ago
This may still be the case, but it’s definitely less true than it was in, say, 2005. Today’s closest equivalent IMO is ad/surveillance tech. Maybe management consulting too, though I don’t know what share of management consultants are actually smart.
- MiroF 6y agoManagement consulting and finance are still huge on the east coast.
- tfehring 6y agoAmong the group of smart people Musk is referring to, though? My impression is that there was a time when a plurality of, say, new physics PhDs were getting snapped up by quantitative trading firms, and that nowadays they're going into adtech ML roles instead.
- MiroF 6y agoEh - I think a lot of Physics PhDs still become quants, I say this having majored in physics at one of these east coast universities. Management consulting a little less so from PhD but definitely from undergrad.