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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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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one point i have that follows from this is that there are certain kinds of knowledge tech won't develop (particularly humanities stuff) bc it will keep rediscovering the same ideas (hence the narrow fetishization of certain books, etc). that's fine, but tech folks keep trying!
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