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I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.
Think about all the advantages! Maybe I'd get to talk to Turing! Maybe I'd invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would've fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!
Most likely you'd be an et. al. in someone's footnote
^1.^ Better known for other work
Now that is leaving your mark in history as an academic.
Probably, but I would probably also never have heard the phrase "generative AI", so win?