Too late to save the university system? I suspect so. What phoenix can rise from the clouds of toxic dust and noise as it implodes?https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1101596081660575748 …
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Replying to @Meaningness @StephenPiment
It will be better. Academia delenda est, for the good of actual science and thought.
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Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW @StephenPiment
I’m not cheering for the end; I’d rather it got fixed. But I think that’s unlikely, so yes, I hope for better replacements!
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The colonising parasites always drive the value creators to break new ground elsewhere. We’ll probably get something much cheaper and decentralized. Trad academia was a paper age technology anyway. The crisis is almost welcome as a catalyst for upgrade.
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Yes... I’d rather a smooth transition (invent the better replacement first). Experiments like
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Tarzan often holds no vine mid-swing. We’re in that vertiginous eternal split second.
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An excellent overwrought metaphor, love it
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I know it can be hard to see through the fog of war, but there's quite a lot that still works & works well. It's like infrastructure - only noticed when it breaks down.
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