The speaker argues that academic researchers need to take big bets, while accepting that many will fail.

“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”

“how many people around and i think it's just it literally just comes down to like big bets um you just have to take big bets and like a lot of them will fail you know like that's just it's it's natural but i think that is”