It's just a waste of my time!

I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I’m incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn’t been thrown in jail.

The difference is that guy was working at a major pharmaceutical research firm with animal advocates and whistle-blowers and accrediting board all over them. Musk’s group is new and is still in the fucking around phase. As soon as they have to answer to any outside org, suddenly this will be a huge liability.

We’re still in the ‘move fast, kill monkeys’ phase.

So agile. Much lean.

Here is a cnn article about it.

Elon wasn’t really involved with it. A university was.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/17/business/elon-musk-neuralink-animal-cruelty-intl-scli/index.html

You mean someone went onto the internet just to tell lies? on purpose?!

He could probably shoot somebody dead in Times Square and nothing would happen to him…

But could he grab them by the… nevermind, if he can buy a horse, he can do anything.

I went to a major medical university and studied humanities. The amount of soon-to-be doctors and nurses complaining about why they needed to study things like ethics, philosophy, or history astounded me, it’s like these people didn’t want to deal with the human aspect of medicine and instead just wanted to make money.

I wouldn’t be shocked if more medschool students dropped out from the humanities courses than the medical ones, they hated it

Was this in 'murica?

*Laughs in big pharma*

Unsolicited petulance like this is why, instead of being empathetic about a situation we both share, I will never not laugh myself to tears as I watch the NHS deal with its massive backlog by killing brits via slowly privatizing.

You’re like the weird kid on the playground, pulling our hair because you have a crush on us

Mate, nobody is crushing on the American healthcare system

I didn’t hate them, but it’s tough when every professor assigns homework like they’re the only class you’re taking.

Not meaning to imply they should be dropped, but looking at the state of the world most people aren’t internalizing anything from the humanities.

I had a professor that said a good student will study Monday to Saturday the amount of hours a day as the amount of credits you take. Take Sundays off. We all had 15 credits a semester.

I was interested in the humanities, so I interacted with that material very deeply. I would say that most of my classmates weren’t interested in humanities, but they weren’t really interested (as in curious, questioning, interacting) with the STEM classes either.

It’s funny because doctors make like nothing compared to finance bros.

You even have to study the history of film if you’re in filmmaking school.

Did any of those courses succeed in teaching empathy, sociality, ethic? If it’s similar to what I experienced in my university, it didn’t do jack shit. University is great at teaching scientific knowledge but horrible at teaching philosophy. I learn more about ethics, philosophy and history via YouTube than from university

Students have an obligation to respond and receive the materials. If you chose not to engage with the classes, then that’s on you, but it’s generally a good thing for doctors and people working with the public to have an education on things like empathy and history (specifically the history of discrimination against marginalized groups).

I learn more about ethics, philosophy, and history via YouTube than from university

Oh, you’re one of those people.

Why do you have to be rude? They were simply claiming the classes were not effective at their apparent goal of making students more ethical. It doesn’t mean they don’t think doctors should be ethical.

I also had to take a required ethics class, and it was the worst taught class I ever took there. It wasn’t effective at teaching me about ethics, it was just a pile of bad tests, and it certainly wasn’t effective at convincing me and the other students to be more ethical in our respective careers.

The free website where many people put up easy to access high quality educational resources is a great way to learn stuff on a budget. Not all of youtube is great but being rude to people who watch youtube videos to make yourself feel bigger is shitty.

You sound like a jerk

I had more fun studying the required courses than CS at my university. I read TAoCP for fun in high school I could sleep through most classes. If I could do it again, I’d do geology as my profession.

Noticed the same when I studied computer science. My fellow students complained about having to study the history of computers, ethics, social studies and especially ex.phil. "I just want to program all day, not study things I will never use!’

I switched bachelor programmes after a couple of years

There was any soon-to-be psychologist or psychiatrist among those students? And, if so, how did they reacted? 👀

So it’s working as intended then?

Please explain how this is a meme.

Well hating Elon has become all you need.

Not…really. I mean, I hate Elon too but that doesn’t make it a meme by itself. It’s how it is presented, and this ain’t it, friend.

Down vote and move on. That’s how this works.

I’m agreeing with you.

No one knows what a meme is anymore. And idk if mods care.

Wow! Been a while since I’ve seen a Michael Crichton quote. I think I’ll have to do a reread of Jurassic Park now.

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