> But given that we collectively believe it is a good thing our taxes go to academics, I fail to see how removing that would be a good idea
For the same reason that we collectively believed wooden sail ships were a good thing to have and now almost none of our ships are made of wood or powered by sail.
Things changed. The top mathematical results of the last decade did not come from academia. It came from machine intelligence labs. In the last month.
For the same reason that we collectively believed wooden sail ships were a good thing to have and now almost none of our ships are made of wood or powered by sail.
Things changed. The top mathematical results of the last decade did not come from academia. It came from machine intelligence labs. In the last month.