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Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by mocha_nate »

Hobadee wrote: post #122
JuniperMesos wrote: post #75

My prediction is that it was a random home invasion robbery committed by someone with multiple previous felonies who had no idea that the person living in the house they were trying to rob was a MIT professor. But I have no more information than anyone else does, I'm making a low-confidence educated guess, and at some point in the near future it's very likely that the professionals whose job it is to investigate seri…

If we are doing random predictions based on scant evidence, mine is a professional hit. Neighbor said he heard 3 shots. If it was a "pop pop...pop", that's 2 in the body, 1 in the head. Professional assassin.

My prediction: time traveler. Guy goes back in time to prevent an unspeakable tragedy that happened in the future. The simplest solution to alter the course of human history was this attack. We'll never find the killer because as soon as his work was completed, he vaporized into the ether as his timeline was culled.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by screye »

socketcluster wrote: post #113
screye wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely. He was killed in the foyer [1] of his building in an exceedingly safe city (Brookline, MA). In a neighborhood with mixed SFHs and condos, it makes little sense to target a condo. Makes even less sense for someone to break in, but to shoot the victim outside, in the foyer. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbmBNre5SQ

Other possibility; a disgruntled investor who poured millions into dead-end fusion research and now wishes they had invested in AI research instead? Blames the professor for persuading them to invest in fusion. It's a tough one to find a motive for...

Can you quote 1 other example of a disgruntled investor that has killed an American academic over the last 50 years ?

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by ricksunny »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #27
FloorEgg wrote: post #3

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Yes. It was aliens trying to keep us from inventing warp tech until we are mature enough to stop creating conspiracy theories the minute something like this happens.

If it was the aliens then they are about to learn what the Streisand effect is.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by wat10000 »

Eisenstein wrote: post #111
wat10000 wrote: post #80

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When it comes to small-scale crime like this, the smartest thing is typically not to do it at all. So the people who do it will generally not be very smart.

> small-scale crime like this You mean murder?

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Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by [deleted] »

screye wrote: post #96
JuniperMesos wrote: post #75

My prediction is that it was a random home invasion robbery committed by someone with multiple previous felonies who had no idea that the person living in the house they were trying to rob was a MIT professor. But I have no more information than anyone else does, I'm making a low-confidence educated guess, and at some point in the near future it's very likely that the professionals whose job it is to investigate seri…

Unlikely. He was killed in the foyer [1] of his building in an exceedingly safe city (Brookline, MA). In a neighborhood with mixed SFHs and condos, it makes little sense to target a condo. Makes even less sense for someone to break in, but to shoot the victim outside, in the foyer. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbmBNre5SQ

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Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by DougN7 »

mocha_nate wrote: post #131
Hobadee wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we are doing random predictions based on scant evidence, mine is a professional hit. Neighbor said he heard 3 shots. If it was a "pop pop...pop", that's 2 in the body, 1 in the head. Professional assassin.

My prediction: time traveler. Guy goes back in time to prevent an unspeakable tragedy that happened in the future. The simplest solution to alter the course of human history was this attack. We'll never find the killer because as soon as his work was completed, he vaporized into the ether as his timeline was culled.

Wish that guy had … well, never mind. Better not to say it.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by refulgentis »

willis936 wrote: post #76
refulgentis wrote: post #67

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Are you from Boston / have you lived there? I do, and thank you for your concern. But this is confusing to say the least. 1. No one should be stupid enough to put their name and rep on the line, in a fluid situation, where there’s 0 idea who did the first anyways, for days now. 2. Dunno what you mean by academics, students and professors? Usually academics refers to professors / grad students / has a job at universit…

You are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of trust. Aaron Katersky and Josh Margolin put their name on the line because without that you wouldn't know the provenance of the information and wouldn't know if you should trust it. Citing an unnamed officer making claims that they have insufficient evidence for is not good journalism, so their reputation takes a hit. The officer also deserves this reputational…

Other comments cover the “logic” being applied here. Dunno who those two names are. I’m genuinely worried about your grip on reality based on your writing, I don’t say that lightly and am very, very, serious, to the point I’d prefer to eat downvotes and offend you than hide that and possibly contribute to you worsening.

I hope you’re extremely close to one of these events and are extremely distraught, even though that’s tragic, because it would indicate you’re not just comfortable disassociated from reality.

Note the difference in your approach this morning versus now, to wit, you this morning: “ We have no info but he was the department head of the MIT PSFC. It's easy to imagine a deranged individual picking a high profile target by browsing MIT's website. Or it was a domestic dispute or road rage or any number of things that would drive someone to shoot someone in their home. We have no information and can only speculate.”

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by [deleted] »

roncesvalles wrote: post #114
karlgkk wrote: post #108

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The us has a population of about 340,000,100. Notice where the 1 is.

Tangential but I think that's a terrible way of making your point because intuitively we don't look at digits of a numbers and think log scale. That looks more like 1/3 instead of 0.000029%.

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