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lol I thought this was going to be complaining about how many GPUs it takes to create a new foundation model (not really anyone’s fault IMO), but turns out its “the AI hype is so large that all the PhDs want to work in corporations and get paid more”.

My brother in Christ that’s the WHOLE SYSTEM. Thats always true because academia is a small corrupted line item in American society, and industry is where all the resources flow. The solutions are a) invest WAY more in universities, or b) socialism. IMO. Anything else would be ineffectually treating a symptom

Ofc this doesn’t apply to private universities. Haha sucks to suck I guess you’ll just have to fade into no existence, what a shame…

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It actually isn’t, or rather it wasn’t. A lot of the big open source projects came out of people that spent undefined amounts of time in or around universities.

It was possible because students didn’t need to worry about meeting commercial needs because they could a comfortable life doing what they like without pressure, and because grants were not beholden to commercial interests.

Not only have Bologna accords creeped in a slow Americanization of European education but open source has also been hijacked.

A lot of this is on Europe’s own self destructive policies though. When they try to mimic the US all that comes out of it, is a crappier version of the US, with more bureaucracy, where they cannot compete on dollars spent.

Absolutely, well said. Never meant to impinge the reputation of the amazing scientists that have brought us our many awe-inspiring technologies, as they continue to excel in spite of financial concerns. I’m just saying that AFAIK the pay disparity has always been around in the 20th century US. Godspeed to y’all in staying away from our mistakes!

The universities have decided instead of paying professors the solution is to hire layers and layers of bloated administration.

It's part of the grift. It's essentially a ponzi scheme, employing graduates holding useless degrees. There's a need to prop up the job market in order to incentivize the next crop of students to pursue even more useless degrees. The bottom will completely fall out of this eventually.

Universities have the resources to hire competitively if they wanted to.

US spends more research per GDP or per capita than almost everywhere in the world. Just because you hate capitalism doesn't mean all things wrong stems from it.

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