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Not a Vacation. (mander.xyz)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Academics is the one area in person conferences are actually useful...

Intelligent people are often antisocial but if you force enough of them into a small room to beg oligarchs for funding, they occasionally get to speak to other intelligent people from other fields.

We'd be better off just giving them vacations and letting them nerd out together for a couple weeks and get wildly different viewpoints for whatever they've been stuck on.

It's at least more beneficial than sales conferences

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

Academics can be approximated as particles in that productive collisions require increased concentrations.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So had to be stopped might get dangerous ideas can't be smarter than the money men they had to beg