This is very good. Follow it to the end!https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/ …
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I was going to make some remarks about the piece but
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The last part of it is eerily relevant to what I was ranting about last night in this thread, though.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1128162464812732416 …
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St. Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 @St_RevOne of the big lessons of the 20th century is when a set of institutions produces something desirable, FedGov decides to subsidize the shit out of them, the institutions rearrange themselves to eat the money and stop doing whatever FedGov wanted in the first place.Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
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I assumed you were subtweet-responding to
@KevinSimler in this thread! See also this thread about a piece Kevin recommended that I think you will also like parts of:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1128386849267802112 …David Chapman added,
David Chapman @MeaningnessReplying to @Meaningness @KevinSimlerOTOH, it’s possible that public awareness of dysfunction may lead to political destruction of the existing institutions before we have anything to replace them with. This scares me a lot. Makes it all the more urgent to get the alternatives up and running soon!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Hadn't read Kevin's piece, I was just expanding on 'no, college AND moon shots are bad'
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Yeah, startling coincidence. NASA delenda est, of course. Universities I’m still somewhat agnostic about. Probably doomed, but it might be just barely not too late to rescue some aspects of them.
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There was a really interesting piece I saw recently about the scientific value of NSF bio-med grants vs Howard Hughes Institute grants. Gigantic difference. I’m forgetting the details (may be able to locate if you are interested) but bureaucratic overhead at NSF was major factor
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I think universities are so far gone that it's probably not possible to save them as intact institutions. At best you could carve out chunks of a handful of disciplines, but there's more tumor than tissue. (Apply 'Rev is very depressed' filter to this)
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I agree and am only mildly depressed :)
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