Ones we would be forced to invent once we recognize we need to and stop clinging to sacred cows
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By all means invent a better milk producer than the sacred cow. So far all the other alternatives give as much milk as a rock.
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Cherrypick and attribute credit as artistically as you like, we continue to talk past each other as we have for years now :)
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I just don’t know what you’re proposing. I hear the critique of universities and I see its consequences. But don’t see the alternatives
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The ability to pick a major without thought to prospects is moral hazard at age 18
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18 year olds don’t have enough information to pick a career. I’ve never worked in a field that existed when I was 18.
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Yup, so that's another area to innovate. Spread 4 years out over 15-20, with more work-study blending.
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None of this stuff is carved in stone. It's a sufficient solution somebody just made up a long time ago, like I'm doing now.
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We agree on research mission actually. You are just married to incumbent ways of realizing it and pursuing it.
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I’m not married to incumbent ways. I’d love to see way more money for undirected research. More ARPA less DARPA.
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Rewind from DARPA to ARPA. How shocking :) Why not also give a lot of $$$ to University of Utah. Worked last time.

