This post gave me a really concrete model of academia and its role in society, in a way that I’ve extensively built on since then for a lot of my thinking on LessWrong, but also the broader problem of how to distill and combine knowledge for large groups of people.
This post gave me a really concrete model of academia and its role in society, in a way that I’ve extensively built on since then for a lot of my thinking on LessWrong, but also the broader problem of how to distill and combine knowledge for large groups of people.