The function of research universities used to be to provide a support structure within which individuals could spend substantially their your time doing some mixture of teaching and research. They’re no long really even pretending to do that.
Not really, that’s a bad comparison at least for what I’m getting at. That’s actually what’s kinda slowly choking traditional research (citation numbers, impact factors, patent counts, ROI mentality). I’m thinking more a kind of disciplined narrative-driven visionary romanticism.
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EA does have a strong narrative & vision, so can serve as a useful guide for more romantic efforts in how to get attention. Also, the problem with metrics isn't metrics, but the gap between the metric & what it's a proxy for.
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So if CZI is directing its funding to things aligned with its values, and foundations collectively are also doing so, that reflects the collective will & vision of society. Part of the problem is how vision has been subjugated to metrics, yes, but also how poor the metrics are.
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