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Yeah it is complicated etc but so are the reasons people smoke or drink but most people don’t give them a hug and a free pass.
Take care of your health, and if taking care if your health is complicated, make it your main project in life.
This does not mean that there are not hardworking talented people elsewhere. They will make it too. But the density of talent at a place like MIT, compared to most other places on Earth in general, is unprecedented, and if that rubs you the wrong way, so be it.
With just a few minutes of experimentation, it becomes really trivial to see how ChatGPT can accelerate some types of jobs sufficiently to justify reduction of staff.
It will likely create other jobs too, which is also mentioned in the article.