I'm not sure modern academia has very much left to do with scholarship in the sense quoted in this article.
This is unfortunate.
And what pray tell do you think modern academia is about?
I have trouble understanding why so many Hacker Newsies have such disdain for a class of people whose main objective in life is to discover and share knowledge, and have sacrificed tremendous amounts of their time, and potential money, to do so.
By revealed preference, modern academia is about churning incremental papers in order to obtain tenure and research grants.
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There are whole disciplines whose telos is now activism rather than knowledge production.
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You linked a pdf but I'm not going to scroll 30 pages on a phone to figure out your cryptic statement
There are whole companies whose only goal is to make money for shareholders! Most people on HN work for them!
And those companies make money from government sponsored R&D. and educational pipelines.
Yes.
People working hard on problems that other people are willing to freely compensate them for is a good thing.
Activism disguised as research is a bad thing.