Please commit more blatant academic fraud
The idea that a field can be reformed by making it worse until it suddenly faces a reckoning and emerges much better is ... I don&#x27;t know where people keep getting the idea that this might work. It has never worked in any field ever in history.<p>The thing that can happen: fields gradually split into rigorous and non-rigorous camps. Like with evidence-based medicine, or chemistry&#x2F;alchemy. Depending on the field, either might prevail in the market. Medical research and bridge-building are mostly rigorous, programming is mostly non-rigorous.<p>AI&#x2F;ML has a range of rigor levels, from fairly good to total crap. I think people in the field have a reasonable idea which is which. It&#x27;s frustrating to people outside the field that think they can just take the technique with highest reported performance numbers and expect good results.