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A comment on You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation.

Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by gweinberg on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:37PM (#17736172)
Yeah, working 80% of your time in industry would be catastrophically destructive to most academics' intellectual freedom. You know what else would be catastrophic to their intellectual freedom? Working 20% of their time at a university.
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Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by vkou on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:13PM (#17736393)
Where exactly do I sign up to get paid to do research on topics that don't have immediate business application?

Pick your poison here. Either you're a servant to teaching, training grad students, chasing grants, and academic politics, or you only get to work on things that will make Facebook, Google, etc, money.

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Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by throwaway_bob on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:21PM (#17736460)
FAIR, DeepMind, Brain, MSR and many others all employ large numbers of people working on pure research with no immediate business application, and with at least as much freedom as their academic counterparts.
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