My first reaction to this news was 'good!', but both colleges and NASA need to be cut way back.https://twitter.com/TimFernholz/status/1128122603283943424 …
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Some kinds of progress just don't seem to scale, and if you flood the zone with resources, you just attract scavengers and predators.
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Sometimes predators are individuals -- academia's full of them, moral entrepreneurs, grifters, demagogues and charlatans. Sometimes the predator is systemic, an institutional fungus clogging the pipes -- NASA's got great people but has been catastrophically useless for decades.
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Now all these institutions, which are also relying on a post war economy and a giant baby boom, find them selves in a sticky situation.
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