Stanford professor fires back at claim that academia "traps smart people"
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-20
After a user argued that Elon Musk's post-dropout productivity proves modern academia (including Stanford) mostly "traps smart people and renders them unproductive," Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje pushed back: does Musk actually invent everything at his companies? Where were his engineers and scientists trained, and by whom?
A representative academia-vs-industry clash over talent and the role of research institutions.
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