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The whole purpose of academia is literally to nerd out on cool, impractical things, which will ocasionally turn out to have some real-life relevance years or de
by badpun 2y ago
The whole purpose of academia is literally to nerd out on cool, impractical things, which will ocasionally turn out to have some real-life relevance years or decades later. This (hallucinated CS) is still more relevant to real world than 99% of what happens in academic research.
- dartos 2y agoYes to the first part, no to the random “99% useless” number you made up. I’m no fan of academia, but it undeniably produces useful and meaningful knowledge regularly.
- badpun 2y agoYou made up the "99% useless" straw man, I never used the word useless in my post. I merely said that the AI research is more relevant than 99% of research, which includes things like gender studies, studies of Rennaisance German theatre, discussions of which exact villages were pillaged and in what order during the march of some army 300 years ago etc. etc.