Judea Pearl: investment measures returns, citations measure intellectual returns
yudapearl · x · 2026-10-13
Turing Award winner Judea Pearl offers a crisp distinction in response to a comment about academic administrators: investment gauges the expectation of returns, possibly even short-term ones, while citations gauge intellectual returns converted into long-term value — an implicit critique of running academia on investment logic.
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