This is entirely about economics. As long as it's more profitable to scam investors with LLM fake claims than work in biotech, our research community will lose talent. As long as it's more profitable to invest in real estate than develop a cancer drug, the research community will constantly lose talent. Are scientists selling real estate?...no...they committed 8-12 year of their lives for that job. However, science is not done in a vacuum. A drug company require many white collar workers for logistics, funding, marketing, management, etc....as well as leadership roles. Not to mention the young...you're 22...you can go into pharmacology and spend 4-8 years in school for to earn 1/10th of what you'd get working for OpenAI.
What China does well is that a central power allocates resources based on long-term planning. As academics say, the most efficient form of government is a benign dictatorship, which China was historically in the 21st century and mostly is today. Yeah, I don't like the Taiwan saber rattling, authoritarian censorship, treatment of minorities, etc....but what you can't argue with is that China is pretty good at getting shit done when they want to. They are a credible player on the global stage economically and scientifically. We should equally celebrate their success and criticize their misdeeds.
I know Fox News or whatever echo chamber you're in told you it's because of our liberal policies, but those are totally irrelevant. I work in big tech and live in one of the best biotech hubs in the world. I meet elite scientists regularly, some are my neighbors. They don't give a shit about the trans community. They're laser-focused on their job and earning money and securing funding. To put it your way, they're serious people. They don't get distracted by the fat weirdos with full beards in dresses and high heels insisting everyone call them "they" instead of "he."
Any social unrest was not caused at universities producing top scientists. MIT has been consistently running things as usual. Harvard?...yeah, there was some drama. I would argue it was due to external factors instigating them rather than homemade stupidity, but either way....everyone in the area knows that Harvard produces mostly managers, politicians, lawyers or leeches of various occupations who gain immense wealth. MIT produces innovation and advancement.
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