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looking on the bright side: will anonymous science produce similar scenarios as Satoshi/Bitcoin, where personal gain is decoupled from discovery & invention? Th
by hunglee2 4y ago
looking on the bright side: will anonymous science produce similar scenarios as Satoshi/Bitcoin, where personal gain is decoupled from discovery & invention? There is already a trend where scientific discovery is slowing, precisely because researchers are nudged into the acceptable / publishable middle, rather than working at the margins where breakthroughs happen. It's a shame for the individual academics, but perhaps a gain overall for humanity
- smitty1e 4y ago> researchers are nudged into the acceptable / publishable middle Researchers go where the funding, like water, is found. But does too much drown the roots? Possibly the breakthrough researchers are a sort of cacti in an intellectual desert.
- hunglee2 4y agocacti in the desert - what a great analogy!
- ngoilapites 4y agoIt does not capture the pain we suffer there!
- hunglee2 4y agolol - I can imagine! But hey, cacti live for ever and can handle external conditions which would wither all other types of plant life, so there's that!
- ngoilapites 4y agoGood points, I love the "living forever". Indeed, it can be seen from the angle of creating a seed (new knowledge) that will live forever. Thanks!
- amadeuspagel 4y agoAcademia is an anachronism that survives due to network effects. Accelerationism makes sense here.