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If all it takes is 3 smart motivated post-docs with no experience, then wouldn't the brain drain need to be 100% for it to be the reason?

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The problem is that many things are correlated. The possibility that one has the capacity (in all its forms) to achieve such a project while at the same time harboring such socially hostile goals is like zero.

The calculus is not simply 95% brain drain so 5% not drain so 5% will behave in this way. There is correlation between being in each group.

I have the same optimistic belief as you, but I wonder if the world really works like that. Meta employees (who are by definition smart enough to get the job) haven't all quit after reading the studies that show that Instagram usage results in teen depression and suicides.

Or perhaps that supports your point. The smart people with fluid morality are vacuumed up by the Metas of the world, leaving none that would build a nuke for a third world dictator.

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