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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

(economics.mit.edu)
386 points carabiner | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ayhanfuat ◴[16 May 25 18:30 UTC] No.44008481[source]▶
> by a former second-year PhD student

Seems pretty serious if they kicked him out.

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dhosek ◴[16 May 25 19:13 UTC] No.44008865[source]▶
I always wonder what happens with these high-profile transgressors. I once created a Google News alert for a high-level Apple employee who went to jail for some criminal act at Apple and never saw any indication of him again. I’m guessing his career in economics is likely over (he’d previously worked at the NY Fed before starting at MIT) and I wonder what he’ll end up doing—will he be able to find some sort of white-color work in the future or will he be condemned to retail or food-service employment.
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1. hilux ◴[27 May 25 20:33 UTC] No.44110447[source]▶
I wondered the same - most of them seem to recover. I think they are helped by their narcissism, in other words, their self-confidence is unshaken by the shame that would cripple "normal" people in a similar situation.

E.g. Kaavya Viswanathan, who plagiarized a high-profile bestseller while a freshman at Harvard, went on to Georgetown Law and a job as an attorney as a blue-chip law firm.

And there are many other examples ...