Yep. This is a toxic (and crazy) outlook. There are plenty of

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Yep. This is a toxic (and crazy) outlook. There are plenty of important problems that basic research will solve outside of labs. Much of this pessimism btw is created by people that have never experienced excellence in pure research and thus don't have a frame of reference.

DimitrisPapail@DimitrisPapail7h ago

One of the worst forms of brainrot AI has cultivated is pessimism about basic research, ie the idea that important work can only happen inside a frontier/neo lab and only with 10k+ GPUs, so the rest should not even bother. What a bleak way to think about science. And it's false.