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by caddemon 3y ago
Look up the percentage of current postdocs that will receive a tenure track position at a major research university. Then cut that number in half after 5 more years of ridiculous grind as an assistant prof. You're looking at less than
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think the system is naturally starting to feel the pressure, albeit it took too long (and may have been expedited by COVID at that). Just look at the number of articles about a postdoc shortage that are cropping up in major journals withi
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by caddemon 3y ago
Maybe not for you, but it's pretty clearly about prestige for a good proportion of the "rising stars" that will actually get tenure track positions at large research universities. I suppose I can only speak directly for my ow
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by caddemon 3y ago
Finance isn't zero sum, trades can be mutually beneficial and efficiently allocating capital is an important problem (that the NIH utterly fails at incidentally). There are a ton of shady finance people because that's where the mo
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think financial abuse is an exaggeration, especially for PhD students who if they are doing things correctly should also be receiving an education as part of their compensation (something a good advisor has agency to control). That said,
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by caddemon 3y ago
Eh plenty of people pursuing science are doing it because they want to be the one to make the discovery, not because of some pure dedication to science. Sure, that's not everyone, but it's a big enough chunk of the people that s
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by caddemon 3y ago
Dude neuroscience departments at pharma companies have been dropping like flies precisely because they are so fucking bad at finding new effective drugs for mental illness. Old shit like Prozac and Adderall doesn't do much for them fin
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by caddemon 3y ago
I'm not the OP lol, I'm just telling you that some people are off the rails delusional and it's not about withholding information at that point. Do you think that little children should be told 100% factual medical informatio
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by caddemon 3y ago
Have you interacted with someone actively experiencing a psychotic episode?
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I mean it's true that doing scientific psychiatry is hard, and a lot of the industry is subpar (and actually the majority do not really closely use psychiatric research results, forgetting how good they are or not). But what alternativ
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by caddemon 3y ago
The main edge is freedom in research topic (at least to the extent of what granting agencies are willing to fund), and freedom in publishing your ideas and results as you see fit. Tenure is a ridiculous gamble right now. Getting a tenure tr
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by caddemon 3y ago
> As someone with a PhD in mathematics: absolutely not. I'm blown away by this statement. Maybe math is an amazing haven of curiosity, and if so that is good to know. But academic credit is half the damn currency of science, and it
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by caddemon 3y ago
The smartest people in a field are not necessarily the best at training, especially if they care more about their own research end goals than trainee outcomes and/or have never gotten proper guidance on how to effectively mentor. Wheth
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by caddemon 3y ago
I don't agree with this as a state policy, but I don't know if it is as disastrous for UT as Aaronson makes it out to be. The academic job market is an absolute fucking bloodbath. Plenty of very qualified up and coming researchers
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by caddemon 3y ago
How old are kids these days requesting social media? I think at some point it's inevitable that they'll figure out a way on, so it's probably better to allow with boundaries and teach healthy habits early-ish. It can start ge
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah it's hard to know precisely, it's probably not a big negative either though - focusing on cutting down the aimless scrolling is probably a better priority than figuring out the effects of 30 minutes of HN (easier said than do
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by caddemon 3y ago
When it comes to teens and their friend groups it's even more complicated than that. The same basic activity on the same platform could be worlds apart depending on the real world group dynamics. Still, I think at a certain point (with
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's pretty hard to study beyond doubt though. You're not going to get much parental consent (or probably even institutional approval) to run a study where you require the experimental group of teenagers to spend 3+ hours a day on
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by caddemon 3y ago
I agree the research doesn't conclusively show direction, but in my experience so many psychiatry correlates are chicken/egg. Depressed people tend to get less physical activity because of their depression symptoms, but too little
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah I don't think we're getting there in our lifetimes, especially not with how neurobio/psych research has been progressing lately, but I agree it is theoretically possible. And along the way there are many imperfect models
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by caddemon 3y ago
You'd be surprised how niche this sort of discussion is in neuropsych research. Is it because researchers aren't thinking enough about the big picture or because the NIH is incompetent and the researchers just go along with what t
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think in most cases this isn't true (who cares how niche your hobbies or style are), but when it comes to internet mental health discussion communities there definitely is a double edged sword IMO. Depends on the community and person
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by caddemon 3y ago
Care to share any?
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by caddemon 3y ago
As someone very language-focused, it has actually done the opposite for me: challenged some of my beliefs about how language enables intelligence. It's obviously skilled at language use, but most of its outputs where it has to make any
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think continual learning (and incidentally curriculum learning) are going to be some of the more important subtopics within deep learning pretty soon. These things seem under-researched to me right now, despite the fact it's a space
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's interesting they chose those 4 domains, those are notoriously hard problems to begin with. And financial markets in particular self-correct themselves all the time. I'm pretty confident that whatever ML models they tried to t
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think a lot of the gaslighting wasn't because of outdated info it was just a limitation in the abilities to begin with.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Eh I think it's untrue prose wise, and I can buy a non-anthropomorphizing argument that ChatGPT can be creative with language use. However I don't think it's untrue when it comes to being truly creative with ideas. If you ask
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah this is a good point, independent of AI (but probably not the internet) things are already becoming more homogeneous IMO. If that's expedited by everybody using e.g. ChatGPT I don't think that would be good.
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by caddemon 4y ago
It could be a contributing factor, but SF seems to have more problems than other expensive cities with concentration of rich industries like Manhattan for finance or biotech/pharma in Boston and Cambridge. Maybe the rate at which incom

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