*edit: I did just realize, however, that the floor plan for this dorm might make an excellent layout for a large number of bedrooms in a game of Dwarf Fortress

*edit: I did just realize, however, that the floor plan for this dorm might make an excellent layout for a large number of bedrooms in a game of Dwarf Fortress. -------- Agreed. His assumptions seem questionable... the whole design is built around the idea that forcing students to interact is objectively good. Even ignoring the pandemic, there's no justification for this other than his assumptions that it's somehow "good". He's apparently also given talks on psychology: https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/ https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/ He's published (or caused to be published) a book containing his "Wit and Wisdom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Charlie%27s_Almanack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Charlie%27s_Almanack He's a Billionaire Republican, and that alone is enough to condemn him in the present day. He does also seem to be one hell of a narcissist. This guy is 97... he was 16 years old at the outbreak of World War II. If he has any idea what it's like to be an undergraduate, that knowledge is dated 1946. But UCSB can't seem to turn money away, even for an obvious vanity project, because Billionaire Republican.