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@lindsey@recurse.social a "president" of a University I worked at would talk about hiring and "throwing" postdocs at a problem even if the research was uncertain. Short term contracts about and the tenure rate of 2%. The president would boast about seldom needing to fire postdocs. They did a program to teach postdocs how to get tenure, the majority of the program's teachers got their role due to their professor retiring. The system was pretty rotten long before LLMs appeared.