Alex Zhang considers the abundance of research bets a luxury of PhD study, while expecting that most of those bets will probably produce no results.

“of being a phd student genuinely is that there's so many big bets to take most of them will probably yield nothing but it's a really really exciting time to be in research especially because i think most progress in the field has been a little bit boring like i'm not saying the the outcome is boring but the process of of doing these things tends to be quite boring um and so there is kind of this question of like you know what”