YHK - yet another hacker news clone

It is driving away mid-career scientists too. France is eagerly recruiting them though and the EU as a whole.

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/choose-cnrs-opportunities-scie...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00405-2

It’s driving everyone away. No demographic is better off, other than obscenely rich people, under this administration. We have effectively killed what the brain “gain” we’ve been benefitting from for decades.

Even though I'm sure it's factually true that there is a decrease in interest from international young researchers to come to the US, articles like this are always a bit dramatic and have a political bias. More problematic are the budget cuts than the decreasing flow of talent from abroad. The country has enough domestic eager brains and the cultural capital to compensate later for this temporary dip.

We are at the point where AI researchers are worried about having to use the term "super intelligence" and avoiding any use of the prefix "trans-" in their terminology in order to get federal grants. So yeah, I can understand why they wouldn't want to do their research here.

I was pretty astounded and heartbroken watching my colleagues pass around a list of banned words so they could scrub their proposals. Then again, what options do they have? Either you get money from the government, corporations who have a very narrow idea of what they want to research, or you move to a country that takes research seriously.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are driven away equal..."

Anyone want to claim that all the people leaving have Trump derangement syndrome? Anyone? Bueller?

Anyone want to claim that the normies like techno fascism? Anyone want to claim that it was smart to line up behind Trump at the inauguration? Did you benefit from that?

Idiots who thought they were the smartest people in the room is who.