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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      Now that model is struggling, I have to wonder why huge capital stocks created from that legacy investment aren’t being plowed back into the head of the funnel. Possibly SV has gotten used to easy private wealth building off of publicly funded feedstock.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      I think the R&D loop can be closed with tech wealth and investment capital. Universities can be unbundled. There’s no good reason to keep teaching, research, and service in the same costly brick and mortar bundle anymore.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      I bet every top 5 VC, PE, and Big Tech firm could each sustain 20% NSF CAREER type indie research network, 3x-ing total R&D bandwidth of the US. With expectations of open source/license output. Restock the commons without need for big 60s/70s style government programs.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      I’d revamp publishing, peer review models, etc, as well, since the model that exists is failing even for university research (hence reproducibility crisis, impact factor gaming, purely cronyism predatory journal empires etc) but that’s a secondary mechanism design problem.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      Income-share education models already exist and offer a competitive alternative to the teaching function of universities and get out of the unsustainable student debt balloon. R&D can be unbundled too.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      What’s the alternative? The innovation economy finally kills the dying golden goose for the last few golden eggs, and enters a late stage fraud economy competing with NIMBY grifters in decaying urban cores. Stockbuybackitis infects SV too. The music stops.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      In this picture the traditional university doesn’t get disrupted so much as have its role refactored into a sort of infrastructure cloud provisioning role. I’d expect much of this sort of thing to happen in university ecosystems actually.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      There’s probably a way this solves the adjunct crisis too, but I’ll leave that for another day (it’s an overlapping population but not coextensive with indie research target population... maybe 30% overlap)

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 16

      Personally I’m aged out of directly benefiting from this kind of infrastructure and am not missionary enough to try and lead an effort to make it happen for others. Happy to play wingman to anyone with the hustle and network to try though. I’ve thought this through a lot 🙂

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    10. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian Nov 19
      Replying to @vgr

      if you’re looking for a missionary, maybe talk to @alexeyguzey

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 19
      Replying to @The_Lagrangian @alexeyguzey

      I’m not really, more like half-heartedly waving at them from the sidelines muttering “yay!” under my breath. Too old for missionary wars.

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