AI writes flawless but boring papers: the missing ingredient is research taste
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-09-04
Replying to Ethan Mollick, the author shares a telling failure of Astra doing original entrepreneurship research: it produced beautifully formatted, technically correct papers on boring topics — plenty of rigor, zero research taste.
His proposed fix: a Tinder-like app where you swipe through papers and abstracts to build a dataset approximating your research preferences. He admits the motivation may not be there, since in the short term you'd be putting yourself out of a job.
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