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Yeah, working 80% of your time in industry would be catastrophically destructive to most academics' intellectual freedom. You know what else would be catastroph
by gweinberg 8y ago
Yeah, working 80% of your time in industry would be catastrophically destructive to most academics' intellectual freedom.
You know what else would be catastrophic to their intellectual freedom? Working 20% of their time at a university.
- vkou 8y agoWhere exactly do I sign up to get paid to do research on topics that don't have immediate business application? Pick your poison here. Either you're a servant to teaching, training grad students, chasing grants, and academic politics, or you only get to work on things that will make Facebook, Google, etc, money.
- throwaway_bob 8y agoFAIR, DeepMind, Brain, MSR and many others all employ large numbers of people working on pure research with no immediate business application, and with at least as much freedom as their academic counterparts.