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Think about why people haven't already done what you suggest. What do you think the reasons might be?
by exolymph 7y ago
Think about why people haven't already done what you suggest. What do you think the reasons might be?
- Ericson2314 7y agoI know why, and I don't like it. 1. Pure "Collaboration" being a "soft" nice-sounding word institutions won't buy your plane tickets for. Planes are bad and those institutions are being bad for thinking that collaboration. Do cheaper rail-accessible regional events, which also help with communication graph ossification and density, to negotiate with them better. 2. Academic rat race becoming ever more pernicious as job market grows tighter. Academia is broken and research is yielding a lot less per cost than it used to. Academia needs to fix its shit or some right-wing goverment is going to succeed in turning off the money hose. I have zero interest in seeing status-quo-preserving procrastination on this front. 3. People that aren't qualified to partake in hallway chat are still eyeballs for marketting at industry conferences. Let's not hitch everything good in the world to the monster than is marketing and advertising? 4. Big conferences are more glamorous Giant hotel are is tasteless and so are people that uncritically enjoy them. But OK fine, Vegas conferences are exempt from my proposals.