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This seems pretty cool. It's tempting, when trying to correct an existing bad thing, to overcorrect and suppress information that's perceived as a threat from the existing bad thing. If this university doesn't fall into that trap, I think it'll be super awesome.

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We got sick of complaining about how broken higher education is. So we decided to do something about it. Announcing a new university dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth: @uaustinorg: bariweiss.substack.com/p/we-cant-wait

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What? It proposes to solve a problem that is not real

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academia definitely sucks right now

9:34 PM · Nov 8, 2021

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In a way that critically prevents it from producing valuable knowledge? They're not just saying it sucks, they're saying something way more radical if I understand it correctly

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I think so, yes. I'm not in academia but from what I understand and have heard from academics, I could never do the kind of research I want to do through a university.

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