Re people leaving academia: this is not specific to CS; it has been the case for decades that PhD graduates per year >> number of available tenure track positions in every discipline. Simply looking at cohort sizes in other disciplines doesn't tell you much: it needs to be normalized to the number of permanent academic jobs available in that discipline. Humanities cohorts are much smaller than science cohorts, but most humanities PhDs don't get permanent academic jobs, because there are much much fewer permanent academic jobs in the humanities.
sure, and CS PhDs probably also have one of the highest rates of non-TT post-PhD careers among stem fields (at least in the last 10-15 years)... but I'd say there is something exceptional about (a) AI (b) now (c) maybe Berkeley -- it absolutely was not the case 5 or even 2-3 years ago for it to be so common to speedrun graduation!
Ironically, "reality has a surprising amount of detail" actually came out of LessWrong in 2017: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hBPkwBZoMwRdcsCoo/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
whoa fun
Hadn’t read that one before but feels directionally correct!
Good catch thanks!
new project sites just need to enter the web brutalism era and the cycle will reset
Not for Everyone. But maybe for you and your polymath patrons?
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Re people leaving academia: this is not specific to CS; it has been the case for decades that PhD graduates per year >> number of available tenure track positions in every discipline. Simply looking at cohort sizes in other disciplines doesn't tell you much: it needs to be normalized to the number of permanent academic jobs available in that discipline. Humanities cohorts are much smaller than science cohorts, but most humanities PhDs don't get permanent academic jobs, because there are much much fewer permanent academic jobs in the humanities.
sure, and CS PhDs probably also have one of the highest rates of non-TT post-PhD careers among stem fields (at least in the last 10-15 years)... but I'd say there is something exceptional about (a) AI (b) now (c) maybe Berkeley -- it absolutely was not the case 5 or even 2-3 years ago for it to be so common to speedrun graduation!