The US runs a large trade surplus in educational services, thanks largely to the attraction of America's leading universities like Harvard. What's more, those students help make the US a leader in innovation. They found a disproportionate number of companies.
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University Research Funding Inefficiency in Physics
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I have been skeptical for a while that the optimal way of answering *any* of those questions was by funding more *university* research. In my own filed, Physics, I've known with an absolute certainty for a long while that it was not. In the light of the current rapid scientific
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Pinker Defends Universities Against Recent Attacks on Science Education
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Steven Pinker (
@sapinker ), a critic of Harvard in the past, brings some perspective to the recent attacks on the university, and on science and education more broadly. "And if you’re still skeptical that universities are worth supporting, consider these questions: Do you think -
AI homework use spoiling kids raises educational concerns
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Kids are getting spoiled by using AI to do their homework. I think we’re raising a generation of BratGPTs.
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How People Use Generative AI Is Rapidly Evolving
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How People Use Generative AI Is Rapidly Evolving Top Use Cases:
Generating ideas
Therapy and companionship
Writing specific search responses
Therapy/companionship
Organizing my life
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Harvard Not Fundamentally Different From Other Universities
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Harvard is not fundamentally different from other universities.
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Pinker Brings Facts and Sanity to Harvard Academic Debates
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Steven Pinker injects some facts and much-needed sanity in the debates around Harvard and American academia.
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University autonomy versus government control in AI policy
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I don’t think it’s methodical. It’s just a shot in a tug of war between ideologically captured universities and a president that demands fealty or quid quo pro
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University Political Neutrality: Essential for Scientific Integrity
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Defending the political neutrality of universities is not a political opinion but a rational necessity. Once science opens itself to ideology, it loses not just legitimacy, it will also become weapon and victim of political camps and cabals
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Academia’s State Monopoly and Political Vulnerability Crisis
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Academia is completely unfazed by replication crises and ideological corruption, because it is a state sanctioned monopoly. But it’s threatened by an investiture conflict when it loudly serves different political ends than the government or the general public