Why do the smartest Stanford/MIT grads default to 'this won't work'?
djcows · x · 2026-11-10
A thread asks why the smartest 18-23-year-olds from Stanford/Harvard/MIT default to detailing why an idea might fail rather than figuring out how to make it work. An AI developer replies this mindset spans all ages among 'smarts' and is miserable to listen to — he'd rather show them a dancing humanoid robot to lighten the mood, touching on the tension between elite critical thinking and builder mentality.
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