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Geoff Hinton was denied an academic position at the University of Sussex's CS department where he had done postdoc work (That department is now 'famous' for consciousness studies and integrated information theory https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zsr78. I bet they are kicking themselves now ...)

> "Academia will one day wake up, and realize that"

Charlie Munger famously said, "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" ...

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> Geoff Hinton was denied an academic position at the University of Sussex's CS department

These kind of anecdotes are fairly common I believe. Understanding anyone's academic potential is enormously difficult, and the competition is fierce. Hindsight is 20/20 and whatnot.