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Academia: Spend your life absorbing everything that's ever been said about a topic in order to hopefully add a tiny increment of original thought to it Tech: Disregard everything that's ever been said about a topic and confidently rediscover other fields' most basic ideas
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Speaking as someone who has spent about a decade in each world, I’m pretty confident (heh!) that the problem is not that tech under-indexes on originality but that academia under-indexes on importance.
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It’s basically an institutional cousin of appropriation complaints culture crossed with a cousin of patent trolling culture (which I’m also generally cynical about)
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i absolutely agree with that. i felt like i was criticizing tech more than academia when i wrote this tweet but they are both deeply flawed in different ways, and under-indexing on importance is a real problem from what i can see at a distance
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