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Yes, actually when I finished my PhD I got hired by a tiny tech think tank that had exactly this model.
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Senior guy had long grant-getting experience; he planned to hire a bunch of junior PhDs, help them get grants, and >
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> for-profit co would take the overhead cut, plus eventually license out patents and win big. Was a plausible model.
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Unfortunately the grant money mostly didn’t arrive and we mostly didn’t get paid. But there were idiosyncratic factors,
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Didn’t take a prof job because I didn’t want to teach and the career path looked lousy. Wanted to do AI without distractio
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Now I do want to teach (maybe? somehow?). But uni monopoly on credentialing makes this difficult.
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People can justifying paying 4 a non-uni course if it gives them a highly-paid skill. Not, to sit around an Athenian salon
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