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on the slowed pace of innovation, pulling together several s from the past 24 hours, plus other related thoughts/references…
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Some outstanding researchers recognize the problem and go independent, hoping that it’s easier to do serious thinking outside an institutional context than within one. In this
@vgr explains some of the reasons that mostly doesn’t work:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …Show this thread
Is the only solution to build an actual, physical alternative academic institution. Like an IAS but for area X?
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I don’t know! Physically proximity to smart people who you talk to frequently is extremely valuable, but maybe the internet is making that decreasingly necessary. I seem to recall some recent science-of-science of study to that effect, actually, although I can’t remember details.
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idk, for some kind of minor tasks, remote seems fine, for more creative ones (collaborative fleshing out a problem, etc) I still feel the pull of irl.
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