There's some outrage towards her for these answers, but we can understand where they come from. But perhaps she learned to avoid tough questions earlier in life.
Because, you see it is absolute absolutely mind boggling to understand how a 16 y.o. Ermira girl from the third-largest city (very small actually) in a country where mafia and government was melted together at that time (and still pretty much is), so... how this girl won a scholarship of unspecified origin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati) which took her straight to USA, and later on landed her in a private and very expensive Ivy League university. You see, there are at least dozen people in my extended pool of contacts from that time, from this region, who have been at IoI, or IoM at the time, and won prestigious first places, and won scholarships of some sorts, and none was THAT lucky.
Of course, this may sound like a girls dream come true, but if you have even a limited insight how the Balkans operate, and particularly how Albania operated 20 years ago... And together with the fact that the present Albanian prime minister suddenly is very close to nowadays Mira, so much as to embraced OpenAI for legislation-something (https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/albania-to-sp...).
Sorry, perhaps my imagination, but this really raises a brow.
It's better to be clear with your allegations. You can't just paint someone bad because they were born in a corrupt country and had to play the game before departing for greener pastures. Let's be frank...Murati would hardly have done much in Albania anyway.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati) - Throughout her school years, she participated in many Olympiads and math competitions. That was likely how she got a foreign scholarship.
As i noted - I personally know dozens of not more OIO and OIM finalists and none was that lucky. And of course - she would’ve ended as a university teacher at best had she stayed in Albania.
But once again - the timeframe is very very important.
interesting speculation. I was also very impressed to see her as CTO and I was thinking "my god she must be very smart, good at expressing ideas etc." because she's the CTO, so I was excited to see interviews of her. But I thought the interviews were horrible and I was wondering how she ended up in that position. Still possible that she's just bad in interviews though
I understand that we humans have natural instincts to uncover plots because as a social animal we have been primed to develop such a skill.
We have also been primed to recognize faces but that can lead us to see them even when there are no faces (e.g. the sphinx on Mars).
We're very bad at intuitively grasping low probability events and large numbers.
I personally know lots of people who have played the lottery but I never met somebody who was THAT lucky to win a jackpot.
Yet those people exist. We understand how the lottery works. It happens regularly enough and transparently enough so it no longer tickles our "corruption/plot/conspiracy" instincts. But if lotteries were never invented and we had one run today and somebody won, I'm pretty sure the default assumption for most people would be to be suspicious about who that person was, why they won, was it a setup etc etc
Unless you have a specific allegation please refrain from insinuating wrong doing just because she came from a corrupted country and was successful.
Because, you see it is absolute absolutely mind boggling to understand how a 16 y.o. Ermira girl from the third-largest city (very small actually) in a country where mafia and government was melted together at that time (and still pretty much is), so... how this girl won a scholarship of unspecified origin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati) which took her straight to USA, and later on landed her in a private and very expensive Ivy League university. You see, there are at least dozen people in my extended pool of contacts from that time, from this region, who have been at IoI, or IoM at the time, and won prestigious first places, and won scholarships of some sorts, and none was THAT lucky.
Of course, this may sound like a girls dream come true, but if you have even a limited insight how the Balkans operate, and particularly how Albania operated 20 years ago... And together with the fact that the present Albanian prime minister suddenly is very close to nowadays Mira, so much as to embraced OpenAI for legislation-something (https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/albania-to-sp...).
Sorry, perhaps my imagination, but this really raises a brow.