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The real irony being that they show up to work just to discover that it was a software programming position.

But they can't quit once they taste that sweet total comp.

The "golden abacus" instead of "golden handcuffs?"

Or as my undergrad mathematics advisor described friends who left academics for finance, "they spend their days clipping (stock) coupons instead of solving math problems - not as interesting but more interest."

s/stock/bond/

You could be apply for grants all day and doing uber at the weekends you sell out!

Rumor has it that Ballmer resigned after asking this question to a candidate named Aphyr...

Just in time for the job to be replaced with AI.

Well, Terrence Tao is trying his very best to replace himself with an AI.

Which, admittedly, seems like a much harder problem.

A world in which AI churns out amazing proofs would be pretty radical though.

Terence is fascinating in how different his thinking is even from most other mathematicians.

I think he’s trying to replace his grad students so that he can solve even more interesting problems.