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Ime the walls are, not absent, but much lower at both ends of the prestige spectrum-- and perhaps that's a reason the timing is more under their control [cue tangential thoughts "petty bourgeoisie of specialised skills", "an ideally free market of academic status" etc]

If that is true, one should see more scandals at both ends (some anecdata ..)

If there's a community college/HYPMS feeder HS teacher nearby with access to vapour deposition equipment.. OP needs to hit it

Back to the AGI/ASI:

Thanks to frontier models the playing field can accommodate slower thinkers.

Academia nowadays are dominated by people like Tao, fast, knowledgeable, but not necessarily deep thinkers. In physics, even mathematics, of the (g)olden age, before standardised tests, famous problems and whatnot---- deep but slower thinkers had an edge. Now every thinker has access to roughly one quasiTao worth of g and a worldclass library in a box.

[heterodox postKeynesian macro, maybe one could call it postpostAbundance. Where goes universities' spend? Internal social (media) moderation. Not PR/HR!!]

It's possible "we" will return to such golden ages, once the "intellectual arts" lose 90% of the prestige and all of the perceived usefulness. When tests are more than useless for curbing "talent oversupply"/"support undersupply". Watch out for an AI fuelled broom dancing resurgence.

  For what are men better than sheep or goats

  That nourish a blind life within the brain

It even sounds like he's asking us to proactively prepare for the next future shock (Toffler)

(Tip: I yt-dlp download subtitles for fast scanning, but it seems the Russian(?) maintainers have been uh preoccupied)

  In fact, since it will be what all the smartest [mathematicians] do, it will probably be prestigious to [math without AI]. Which in turn means more people will claim to do it than will actually do it.

Or that LLMs for writing need work and funding too..