Zachery Lipton: "CS academia broke the system...perhaps all that it takes for the system to rebuild is for it to burn to the ground" [D]
Zachery Lipton suggests that CS academia has "broke the system," implying a need for radical change. This sentiment arises as the number of new machine learning papers uploaded to cs.LG on arXiv reached an all-time daily high of 447 on September 9, 2026. The discussion questions whether the current academic system is beyond repair and if it needs to be "burned to the ground" for good science to resume.
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PublishedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 13, 2026, 10:42 UTC
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Sept 9, 2026 hits an all time daily high of 447 new machine learning papers uploaded to cs.LG (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent?skip=0&show=500 ).
This is many times more papers than what a human being or even a sizeable reading group could feasibly read and digest in a year.
Are we pass the point of no return? Should the system be be, like he says, "burned to the ground" before good science can resume?