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[[File:Dror-Bar-Natan-Eric-Weinstein-Raoul-Bott.jpg|thumb|Dror Bar-Natan, Eric Weinstein, and Raoul Bott]] | [[File:Dror-Bar-Natan-Eric-Weinstein-Raoul-Bott.jpg|thumb|Dror Bar-Natan, Eric Weinstein, and Raoul Bott]] | ||
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''Like, for example, I don't have an advisor for my PhD, but I have to have an advisor as far as something called the Math Genealogy project that tracks who advised whom, down the line. So I am my own advisor, which sets up a loop, right? How many students do I have? An infinite number—or descendants. They don't want to have that story. So I have to be—to have "formal advisor Raoul Bott". And my Wikipedia entry, for example, says that I was advised by Raoul Bott, which is not true. So you get fit into a system that says, Well, we have to know what your h-index is, we have to know, you know, where are you a professor, if you want to apply for a grant. It makes all of these assumptions. What I'm trying to do is to, in part, to show all of this is nonsense. This is proxy BS that came up in the institutional setting.'' | |||
- '''Eric Weinstein''', April 13, 2020, on [[Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions (YouTube Content)|The Lex Fridman Podcast]] | |||
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