> And countra argument is that smart capable educated people choosing to do machine learning instead of physics is not social issue. You want your brightest in

> And countra argument is that smart capable educated people choosing to do machine learning instead of physics is not social issue. You want your brightest in society to do things that further society/humanity as a whole; playing the stock-market game or optimizing models to further consumerism (which is what most ML in the industry boils down to, let's be honest) isn't exactly doing that. Everyone's absolutely free to work on whatever they want, that's for sure. But from a society point of view, we should ask ourselves if our system sets the right incentives.