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Clarifying point - although coliveira's comment was as something of a true outsider, the original comment in the linked article was from a published phD student
by yalurker 17y ago
Clarifying point - although coliveira's comment was as something of a true outsider, the original comment in the linked article was from a published phD student in theory who felt snubbed based on his response to "What school do you go to?"
- gdp 17y agoOh, duly noted. That wasn't obvious to me from my initial reading of the article. That said, that's certainly contrary to my experiences. Most smart people are suckers for interesting research, and if you're doing something interesting, people will feel like discussing it. Of course, most people often like talking about their own work more. If that's really a concern, just school up on the work of a few people and ask them about their research in a semi-intelligent way. It's just human that we're often much more interesting to ourselves than other people are.