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#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is MIT the Biggest Problem in the Machine Learning Field?
I'm bullish on academia. You need up and coming schools that end up better than where they started off. The biggest problem to me is the rank absurd conformism. I kind of second tier schools, maybe in the top 40, but not in the top dozen,. That it is trying to be like a junior MIT, but it's mediocre and copycat. They're the most dogmatic and forest-wizard weirdness. And so like, how do you balance it too? It's not obvious.
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