There’s little groundbreaking work currently done and as a result we have the great stagnation. Nobel Prizes do require a certain academic contribution but they also require networking and winning academic politcal competitions.
Counting winning those status competitions as proxy for groundbreaking work is an illustration for everything that’s wrong with academia today and preferring status over actual scientific results.
Do you think any of the names on your list provide the kind of groundbreaking work that Einstein was able to do twice in 1905?
Apart from that today’s academic enviroment is not the same it was when Arthur Ashkin went to Bell Labs. He might have needed a degree to get to Bell Labs. The fact that he got the Nobel Price in 2018 for work over 30 years old is again a sign that our academic system isn’t producing much groundbreaking work lately.
The nearest we have to Bell Labs is Google X which doesn’t require degrees.
Scientific equipment is expensive, data gathering is hard,
Scientific equipment is expensive but it can drive you to try to make us of the scientific equipment instead of doing the kind of groundbreaking work Einstein did where you work conceptually to reorder existing data.
it helps not to have to spend 20-40 hours per week on other forms of work
That’s basically saying it helps not to be in academia. Within academia there are few jobs where you don’t have to spend 20-40 hours for teaching and administration per week.
There’s little groundbreaking work currently done and as a result we have the great stagnation. Nobel Prizes do require a certain academic contribution but they also require networking and winning academic politcal competitions.
Counting winning those status competitions as proxy for groundbreaking work is an illustration for everything that’s wrong with academia today and preferring status over actual scientific results.
Do you think any of the names on your list provide the kind of groundbreaking work that Einstein was able to do twice in 1905?
Apart from that today’s academic enviroment is not the same it was when Arthur Ashkin went to Bell Labs. He might have needed a degree to get to Bell Labs. The fact that he got the Nobel Price in 2018 for work over 30 years old is again a sign that our academic system isn’t producing much groundbreaking work lately.
The nearest we have to Bell Labs is Google X which doesn’t require degrees.
Scientific equipment is expensive but it can drive you to try to make us of the scientific equipment instead of doing the kind of groundbreaking work Einstein did where you work conceptually to reorder existing data.
That’s basically saying it helps not to be in academia. Within academia there are few jobs where you don’t have to spend 20-40 hours for teaching and administration per week.