WTF?! Please provide an evidence of LW encouraging PhD students at top-10 universities to drop out of their PhD program to go to LW “training camps” (which by the way don’t take a few months).
When I visited MIRI one of the first conversations I had with someone was them trying to convince me not to pursue a PhD. Although I don’t know anything about the training camp part (well, I’ve certainly been repeatedly encouraged to go to a CFAR camp, but that is only a weekend and given that I teach for SPARC it seems like a legitimate request).
Convincing someone not to pursue a PhD is rather different than convincing someone to drop out of a top-10 PhD program to attend LW training camps. The latter does indeed merit the response WTF.
Also, there are lots of people, many of them graduate students and PhD’s themselves, who will try to convince you not to do a PhD. Its not an unusual position.
When I visited MIRI one of the first conversations I had with someone was them trying to convince me not to pursue a PhD. Although I don’t know anything about the training camp part (well, I’ve certainly been repeatedly encouraged to go to a CFAR camp, but that is only a weekend and given that I teach for SPARC it seems like a legitimate request).
Convincing someone not to pursue a PhD is rather different than convincing someone to drop out of a top-10 PhD program to attend LW training camps. The latter does indeed merit the response WTF.
Also, there are lots of people, many of them graduate students and PhD’s themselves, who will try to convince you not to do a PhD. Its not an unusual position.