I legitimately think the correct course of action toward student protesters at this point is to laugh at them Deep ceasless belly laughs
maybe the way a stage 3 cancer can be fixed? with great pain and an uncertain outcome? otoh universities have survived a lot in 1000yrs
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What purpose do they serve now, in your opinion?
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Too much. Real learning and some research in STEM+. Class socialization. Indoctrination. Racketeering. Tribalism. Probably more
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All the real progress these days happens in companies, research institutes, and other private groups.
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Well, that's a slight exaggeration right now, but really will be true in a few years.
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definitely trending that way in economics, and fast eg
@Amazon has ~150 good phd economists, all with more data on hand than most academics -
and come to think of it none of them are working on problems with expected value of zero
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