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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
University Professors Have a Lot of Freedom and Space to Do a Wide Range of Things
I hear that centuries ago, many scientists and intellectuals were aristocrats. So the analogous observation is that university professors often have sort of freedom and space to do a wide range of things. I can't be too proud of that because it's basically a tax on all these young students to pay this enormous amount of money in order to be labeled as better. The other main customer is researcher patrons like the government or other foundations. And my analysis is they don't actually care about the research progress. They are mainly buying an affiliation with credentialed impressiveness on the part of the researchers.
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