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This is a good article. My impression is the way we think of scientific credit in general is broken. There's too much of an attempt to attribute credit to a sma
by derbOac 2y ago
This is a good article. My impression is the way we think of scientific credit in general is broken. There's too much of an attempt to attribute credit to a small number of people. This might or might not have been more accurate at one time in history but it's increasingly a problematic schema for how to think about how science works.
I don't mean that people who get credit don't deserve it, more so that there are often a series of people who also deserve it and don't get credit.
- hulitu 2y ago> often a series of people who also deserve it and don't get credit. This is normal. See "The lifecycle of a troubled project". The last step is "Dictinctions for the uninvolved".
- monkeyfun 2y agoReminds me of a classic old IGN interview with Warren Spector. It goes: "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.