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An average person (whether in academia or industry or in society) is one that understands how to survive in the system. A smart person (whether in academia or
by jll29 3y ago
An average person (whether in academia or industry or in society) is one that
understands how to survive in the system.
A smart person (whether in academia or industry or in society) is one that
makes the system work for oneself (= hack it).
However silly academic systems will be designed in the future, thankfully there will always people like Wiles or Feynman that go for the hard problems no matter what, whilst managing to be at least tolerated by "the system".
- marcosdumay 3y agoTo put it bluntly, the system works actively against working on hard problems. And very intensely so. So, you are taking the set of a dozen or half of people good and enough on their research line and privileged enough to possibly make an important impact, and filtering it by requiring that they have that completely unrelated competency of hacking a social system so it turns from forbidding their work into allowing it. How selective is that new filter? Because if it's anything like 10%, you'll probably end-up with no one at all.