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normative claim

The speaker suggests that researchers who do not want to take big bets should consider industry labs, which the speaker says have abundant resources and talent.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“on things that like nobody cares about or like people see as some trivial thing like oh i thought about this but like i don't use it i just think like in the end the research is just never going to be that interesting because you kind of need to take big bets if you're going to be in academia because otherwise i think like just go to an industry lab like you know they have tons of resources tons of talent why constrain yourself in an area where you don't have a lot of resources and like there's not even that many”
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