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Research that becomes overhyped can prompt people to dismiss it as trivial or stupid.

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

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“not an academic project i want to bring this up because this also happened with rlm's and uh it happens with many other works like things get overhyped right to an extent like something gets overhyped and then people are like why is this overhyped like this is trivial this is stupid and i saw the same thing with jeff because i think the release was like i mean there is this whole thing about like academics or they're not an academic group but like people have”
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