> The human brain doesn't use a billion dollars in compute power, figure out what it is doing.
Perhaps figuring out what it is doing itself costs billions of dollars?
Perhaps figuring out what it is doing itself costs billions of dollars?
That said, I think you are right that academia’s structure may need to change. Right now, we’re locked into a model where projects mostly need to be doable by a handful of researchers (almost entirely trainees) in a few years. Other than these time-limited positions, there’s not a lot of room for skilled individual contributors, which seems goofy when tackling such a hard problem.
This has been done for thousands of years, we are not the only generation who found it's important to understand how we work.