HN doesn't disappoint! Down-votes, and no-one can do due diligence. <CTRL+F>Push Singh He was named one of the "IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch," an awar

HN doesn't disappoint! Down-votes, and no-one can do due diligence. <CTRL+F>Push Singh He was named one of the "IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch," an award that honors young researchers in artificial intelligence. He planned to take a faculty position at the Media Lab this fall...There has been some public note of the similarity between the suicide of Push and that of another more renegade AI Researcher a couple months earlier, Chris McKinstry http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/www/mit-suicides/ http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/www/mit-suicides/ Bhuwan Singh G The Boston Herald reported that Singh suffocated himself with a yard-waste trash bag. And so on. As I said ~ that whole "killing yourself by applying common garden bags in what in most countries would suggest torture / outside interference" is... rather common in some circles. Blinkers. Wear them! Fear the wider world! Down vote everything outside of your cubicle! (Hilarious ~ no wonder the Angels love this site, so easy) Bonus round: The death of Shacknai’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, was determined to be a suicide, Gore told reporters today... Zahau, 32, was found nude, with a rope around her neck and her hands and feet bound, a sheriff’s department official said at the time http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-02/medicis-ceo-shacknai-didn-t-commit-crime-death-was-suicide-sheriff-says.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-02/medicis-ceo-shackna... You're all so cute! Committed to the Homo Sapiens 2.0 meme, with nary an eye at the real world. Delightful! Oh, and I rate the ~15+ downvotes as your votes for blindness & wilful ignorance over enlightenment and ability to do even an iota of original research. Not a single one who did an even cursory search / knew enough about the field to give a "yes-coincidence-but-not-conspiracy" post. :Case proven ~ HN is, indeed, for Useful Idiots. . . . . . Now I've provided a citation or two, does this mean all the Aspies in the room will actually do a bit of research? Doubtful, but there we go. [Citation needed if anyone on HN actually is intelligent enough to do basic research] “"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” ~ How very true, and how easily you're put into hutches here. . Hint: I mentioned three, and only linked to two! Not to mention that whole accident thing. How dangerous AI research can be, when algos rule the world ~ remind me how many young PHD students go into Finance these days? That would be a good place to start one's ruminations! So many random and pointless deaths in the Big Apple.