Why I left academia: love letters to Liota

Dominance and submission games are tiresome and ugly (unless they're sexual play)

Liota ’n’ me, 1989 There’s a memorable letter from Richard Feynman to his wife, written from a gravitational physics conference.1 When I read it, I cracked up, because I had written strikingly similar ones to my girlfriend Liota, from AI conferences. Although, his didn’t make explicit comparisons with BDSM: I am not getting anything out of the meeting. I am learning nothing. Because there are no experiments, this field is not an active one, so few of the best men are doing work in it. The result is that there are hosts of dopes here and it is not good for my blood pressure: such inane…

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• Corbin Aquino

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