I'm picking up a good bit of outsider sentiment here. To be clear, this has nothing to do with undergrads, only researchers who literally devote their lives to improving our understanding of the world.
Academia's mad cabal incentive structure can't collapse soon enough. A never-ending dog-and-pony parade while undergrads are fleeced, capped and kicked without a single notable competence after four years paying through the nosehttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101497087743660032 …
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I know that normally IF Paul Graham AND Universities THEN Universities bad, but not this time.
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you don't need college is the new "younger people were more respectful back in the day". And why not just become a developer and skip college is the new why don't you become a plumber if you don't like to study, you make bank. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, forever.
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For like 85% of the people I know who went to college, their degrees were less valuable than 4 years experience in a trade. Even if you don’t count cost of college tuition. It’s a two pronged problem of oversaturation and the occasional worthless degree IMO
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How do you see the relationship between research work and teaching? Here you talk about the pedagogical side of academia (and its cost to students) but later you discuss rigour, mediocrity and incentives in research. They're usually seen as pretty separate branches.
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We should have a federal law that requires all federally funded universities to publish all their research in PLUS ONE or some similar open access journal. We, the taxpayers, already paid for this research. Well said Mason.
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Hey, that's not true. Many people, after four years of college, can tell you your exact moral and epistemic worth based on your immutable characteristics. That's practically a superpower!
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