[patagurbon]

None of the other universities have agreed yet.

What do you mean by laser focused? Do you have specific policies to address this? If not then this is a natural part of the unfocused nature of knowledge work, and the natural weakness of human organizations.

University research and knowledge work in general is backtracking search, not gradient descent in a friendly loss landscape.

[nine_k]

> What do you mean by laser focused?

I mean that universities, like any large organizations, are very not free from internal politics and peer pressure. Also, like any large group of people, they are subject to irrational but powerful phenomena like the intellectual fashion, or religious zeal (which does not take an established religion). These all are impediments on the way of truth-seeking, but are inevitable due to human nature.