Hinton's 'I'd do it again' says little about anyone else's odds
miniapeur · x · 2026-10-13
The author argues Hinton's reply in a debate over whether young people should do research was exactly right: a spectacularly successful person saying he'd choose research again tells us how he feels about his own career, not what the odds are for others — as informative as Michael Jordan picking basketball again.
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