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> This sounds like you're describing a system that is a failure but that the solution is not to fix the system but to give up and do something else. Can we not
by lmm 3y ago
> This sounds like you're describing a system that is a failure but that the solution is not to fix the system but to give up and do something else. Can we not fix academia? Is the signal of so many people, especially in CS, abandoning academia for industry not as clear of a sign as you can get?
Not enough people have left yet. Until enough people leave that academia has a hard time finding talent that it needs, as far as they're concerned there's no problem.
- godelski 3y ago> Until enough people leave that academia has a hard time finding talent That's going to be a long time. If by talent you mean people who can do the job. But that doesn't fit the story that universities sell, which is about learning from the cream of the crop.