I mean this seriously: what problem does one think they're solving, here?https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1088113678640009216 …
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Credit to Noah, he does outline his goal as being A: basic research, B: funneling money to rural-ish areas, and C: keeping intelligent angry people employed and not-rebelling. This does achieve those goals as well as any idea, whether they are good ones is fair to debate.
What are we trying to accomplish by "increasing" basic research? What are the terminal goals, there? Are those goals best met by increasing the # of college professors? Do college professors work in disproportionately rural areas? How could we otherwise increase spending there?
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I 80% agree on the basic research question, our current system is ill-structured and in particular rewards box-checks over ideas - my 20% comes from a lack of faith in there being a *great* way to do basic research overall, vague outputs = vague inputs.
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The trough I'm trying to lead this particular horse to is labeled "your lofty aims are good, your incentives are bad, stop signalling and start trying to build systems in good faith."
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As for the rural, all I can say is Noah thinks so https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-16/rural-america-s-revival-begins-on-campus …. I was just adding context to his point as opposed to agreeing with it, my apologies if that wasn't clear!
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