Schroedingers2c

I worked hard and got into one of these prestigious universities for my Masters, but grew up lower-middle class, on the countryside, in a not very healthy environment.

Having seen it first-hand, I can only agree. There's so much privilege at these institutions, it's almost sickening sometimes. I don't want to throw everyone in one pot, there's certainly genuine, decent people there. But there is so much self-importance and arrogance floating around, and just this casual and unquestioned attitude of superiority.

What I do want to say is that pretty much everyone I met there had a base-level above average smartness and/or work ethic. But I also mostly hung out with STEM people. Didn't get to know many managerial or related types.

It's remarkable how almost every serious incident due to equipment errors in the past few months involves a Boeing aircraft rather than an Airbus.

Will revisit this in a couple months.

Thanks for the link! Looks very interesting on a first skim.

Even if the probability for this to succeed is really really small, there's a good chance it will happen when you have billions of years time and idk how many orders of magnitude (10^40? 10^50?) of atoms/molecules constantly interacting.