Probably. He has an unusually negative view of academia, doesn’t have much firsthand experience with it (particularly elite academia), and his predictions have tended to be too negative, e.g. re the Higgs Boson, decision theory, and the skill of top academic AI/machine learning researchers. That inevitably slips in to things.
availability bias from being exposed to bad examples of scholarship?
I wonder if EY is partly to blame.
Probably. He has an unusually negative view of academia, doesn’t have much firsthand experience with it (particularly elite academia), and his predictions have tended to be too negative, e.g. re the Higgs Boson, decision theory, and the skill of top academic AI/machine learning researchers. That inevitably slips in to things.
I do have some firsthand experience with it and still feel somewhat negatively about it, though not to the degree EY does.