alt Hacker News> Go to any top STEM PhD program and do a headcount.
Intelligent Americans rarely go through the hazing ritual that is a PhD because its financially stupid unless you’re rich.
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fooker • yesterday at 2:43 AM
It’s not that far in the future that you’ll start seeing quite a few ‘intelligent Americans’ in European and Chinese PhD programs :)
If you mean “intelligent” Americans who work on fucking blood sucking ad tech or garbage financial engineering rather than pushing the boundaries of science and technology, sure.