Name: Academia is Beholden to the New
Uploaded: 2024-12-28T13:01:38+00:00
Description: "It's ultimately an outgrowth of philosophy [...] And so there's this heavy focus on novelty. There's this heavy focus on, 'Oh, what's interesting?' [...] It's not …

"It's ultimately an outgrowth of philosophy [...] And so there's this heavy focus on novelty. There's this heavy focus on, 'Oh, what's interesting?' [...] It's not well suited for what I would call invention or the creation of new useful technologies where it doesn't matter how new the idea is."

~ Ben Reinhardt explains why academia is beholden to the new...

Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/speculative-technologies-ep-248

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KOKVnGJAg&t=2426s

Academia is Beholden to the New

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