@momomahasees @Kaju_Nut New endeavors may or may not be 'profitable' in the sense that they can get intellectual attention and follow-up. But overall, I think the sign is positive. Two that come to mind are the writings of Sagan and Feynman as they got older - definitely positives
@momomahasees @Kaju_Nut There was a roughly positive monotonic relationship between the effort put in and the returns they got. I won't go all Adam Smith on you, but the collective farms did not have that relationship and could be more easily shrugged off.
@momomahasees @Kaju_Nut Academia has an interesting 'built-in' feature of tenure, which allows for people to follow their noses, albeit with funding being reviewed. I'd say that the academy is the equivalent of private lots of land being tended by enthusiastic owners (for the most).
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@LucaAmb@WKCosmo@CburgesCliff That's my view. The CP violation argument has haunted me since the proposals for B factories. She does not touch on things like the importance of examining Higgs BR's. There is an important conversation to be had @ new accelerators, but in a serious way.
@LucaAmb@WKCosmo@CburgesCliff It's a bit like looking at a fun-house mirror, where there are real images, but they're distorted. I was bothered by arguments about CP violation in quark/lepton sectors and solving the baryon asymmetry of the universe.
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