And the academic most likely to accidentally eradicate human life is…

July 6th, 2008 by jose

Ok, this is just a quick, relaxing post.
In your view who is the academic most likely to accidentally eradicate human life?


About the author: Jose Quesada wanted to be a matador, an acrobatic pilot, or a painter, but found those activities not demanding enough, so he chose an academic career. He secretly hopes to orchestrate a system that produces papers without any human intervention (particularly, his).


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3 Responses to “And the academic most likely to accidentally eradicate human life is…”

  1. L ZoelNo Gravatar Says:

    Philosophy.

  2. joseNo Gravatar Says:

    I’m going to chime in.
    I think Luis Von Ahn (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/).
    He can convince people to work for the machines. And in doing so, he makes machines more capable of understanding the web. He is silently building the Matrix O_0 .

  3. MattNo Gravatar Says:

    No mention of the Large Hadron Collider?!

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