Reminds me of Philip Anderson's testimony against the funding of superconducting super collider. (need to register to read the article) https://www.the-scienti

Reminds me of Philip Anderson's testimony against the funding of superconducting super collider. (need to register to read the article) https://www.the-scientist.com/opinion-old/the-case-against-the-ssc-63734 https://www.the-scientist.com/opinion-old/the-case-against-t... Incentives in academia seems to be directed towards bringing in grant money. I like Barto and Sutton's discussion of 'nomadic' researchers (8:54, but the entire video is great): https://www.coursera.org/lecture/sample-based-learning-methods/andy-barto-and-rich-sutton-more-on-the-history-of-rl-1riMx https://www.coursera.org/lecture/sample-based-learning-metho... I don't know if this is a positive or negative for scientific progress, but, those are just two links that add perspective to academic research/funding.