@davidho

Every now and then I consider doing a PhD. Maybe try for a life in academia. Get a professorship, sew some leather patches on a tweed jacket and get all the babes.

Then I think about how a PhD would be a life of hard work and poverty, and I focus on other things. Leave PhD to the pros. The idea of being accepted into the royal society would never occur to me.

But hey, maybe I should have just published "I Hope Artificial Intelligence is Nice to Us" [2014].