But I'm pretty sure this would make life very bland. Slow down innovation as we become less creative, less willing to deviate from the norm, and the Overton window of what's socially acceptable narrows. After all, we do love having enemies in some way or another, even if it means making them up.

So far I get a lot of pushback and statements like "it's just linear algebra" and "quality doesn't matter, it's quantity. Just scale. That's the bitter lesson". The former tells me they know very little linear algebra and the latter tells me they know very little about probability distribution and the concept of coverage... I routinely see papers get awards and tens of thousands of citations when they're making errors I would expect undergrads in my classes to do better at... I think a big reason I'm frustrated is that supposedly we share the same goals -- building AGI -- but I'm told I'm stopping them from doing so while they reject my papers and theirs gets accepted... (Fwiw I'm happy to accept scale papers. There should be a wide range of ideas explored. But I'm upset that we're on a railroad and any deviation from that is considered heresy)