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This is only if the company is not stuck in a rut. In academia, the state of the art advances when the previous generation dies off.
by Onavo 2y ago
This is only if the company is not stuck in a rut. In academia, the state of the art advances when the previous generation dies off.
- rowanG077 2y agoAn often repeated idiom without any evidence.
- marcosdumay 2y agoThere's a lot of evidence... a century or more old. The lack of recent evidence is inherent, it doesn't say we fixed it. But also we also changed enough stuff on the last century that blindly applying older lessons isn't a gainfully strategy.
- jcranmer 2y agoSuch as? I can think of a few cases where the crotchety old guy poured absolute shit on the new guys who came up with radical new theories that turned out to be correct. But in both cases (Linus Pauling with respect to quasicrystals, Eric Thompson with respect to Mayan script decipherment), the field moved on long before he died.
- fragmede 2y agoDoes science advance, one funeral at a time? Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua S. Graff Zivin https://assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server/files/9157.pdf https://assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server/files/9157.pdf
- whiterknight 2y agoThis academic system has only existed for 100-150 years. Less for science.