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• downboots 2y ago
  inefficiency
  • ffsm8 2y ago
    Collaboration comes with it's own challenges and inefficiencies
  • toast0 2y ago
    Independent concurrent discovery might be better than independent confirmation.
  • dekhn 2y ago
    modern science isn't intended to minimize inefficiency- it's intended to maximize the rate of stochastic discovery.
  • micromacrofoot 2y ago
    survivorship bias