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How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge, Samo Burja for The Stoa
"Live Players" with Samo Burja and Erik Torenberg
Redefining Academia for Efficient Knowledge Production
Current academia is viewed as inefficient in terms of human and capital resources for knowledge production. The speaker believes that a small group of very talented thinkers could significantly compete or push boundaries in knowledge production with a fraction of the current resources spent. Contemporary academia is critiqued for overextending its role by focusing on recording and cataloging existing knowledge instead of driving new discoveries. The speaker contrasts classic academia's productivity, specifically referencing the German research university model, which was more intellectually productive due to its distinct socioeconomic structure. The American dream of upward social mobility is deemed impossible to promise due to its nature of being relative and self-contradictory.
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