https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/ai-ethics-academia/675913/

I concur

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

For innovation incentivized by ideas.

Against incrementalism incentivized by arXiv preprints

“Good casts: eclectic, quirky, witty” - @botornot

Also some of these folks like Peter Norvig just produce great content even beyond the topic of the content itself - highly worth it 

In a big believer that the cutting edge is mostly garbage; and the way to find out what is not garbage today is to study the past

Yeah, I like what Peter Norvig produces and am not familiar with enough of it. 

I would ask cutting edge as measured against what?

Makes sense.

And a tricky thing about cutting edge theoretical knowledge is that sometimes it takes a ~century to build a production ready system to test aspects of a theory. 

For example, theory of general relativity and LIGO

Makes sense.

And a tricky thing about cutting edge theoretical knowledge is that sometimes it takes a ~century to build a production ready system to test aspects of a theory. 

For example, theory of general relativity and LIGO https://is.gd/rvngOg

Cutting edge specific to commercialization / production ready systems

Boundaries of human knowledge are continually pushed outward. It takes a different type of work, one that is focused on research, that bleeds into biz use cases etc

obviously with SW this goes quicker, but e.g. with biochem it can be decades