... I knew a guy, Brian Greene. I helped him to get a summer job at IBM because people told me he was brilliant, and he was. And when I heard that he had gotten a professorship at Columbia, it was described to me like this. It was a joint professorship between the physics and the math department, because the math department thought what he was doing was physics, and the physics department thought that what he was doing was math.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "... I knew a guy, Brian Greene. I helped him to get a summer job at IBM because people told me he was brilliant, and he was. And when I heard that he had gotten a professorship at Columbia, it was described to me like this. It was a joint professorship between the physics and the math department, because the math department thought what he was doing was physics, and the physics department thought that what he was doing was math." in the context of "Gregory Chaitin, "The Rise and Fall of Academia", Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, YouTube (quote at 6:04 in video)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.