[lyxsus1]

We don't know exact question asked. And even if it contained exact "stealing" phrasing, it's possible mr. Bengio simply decided to ignore connotation for sake of productive conversation. It's clear both we and him are aware of brain drain happening but, he also have noticed mutual beneficial effects of the facts and I my personal believe is that had he felt important to object, he would, but he didn't. But that doesn't say much to support he believes it's unfair competition

[carapace]

I'm not sure where you're going with this, but my only point here is that it's silly for the OP to say that Bengio and/or the author of the piece somehow didn't understand that "more money" is part of the reason why people leave academia for industry. It was a stupid goddamned comment.