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My goal is not to convince the research community to switch focus or to prompt sweeping institutional changes.
I know a small number of extremely intelligent and otherwise altruistic people who do pure research (and if my life had gone slightly differently it seems like I might have become one). My goal is to convince such people to think seriously about what they are doing with their time.