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As a researcher that does mostly numerics, I really hope not. This would be a huge bureaucratization of scientific exploration and would slow down progress. I u
by setopt 2y ago
As a researcher that does mostly numerics, I really hope not. This would be a huge bureaucratization of scientific exploration and would slow down progress. I understand why it’s necessary in some fields like medicine, but I don’t think it’s worth the trade off in say theoretical physics.
Imagine the corresponding concept for programmers: you are not allowed to sell or share any software you create unless you pre-register a detailed plan for what code you will write and how it will be used before you write the first line of code. Pretty sure that would reduce the innovation going on in public GitHub repos a lot :)
- shishy 2y agoI think that not knowing the null results of others also slows down innovation, because you never know if an area of interest / whitespace in a field is 1) because there's something there or 2) because others tried, failed, and didn't publish. Maybe pre-registering isn't the right answer; I'm sure there are practical hurdles, but the problem to be solved still remains the same (visibility into the graveyard of failed experiments to improve the rate of innovation).