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I think the state could simply allocate money to long-lived scientific institutions and let the experts there handle things as long as there is no obvious corru
by ahartmetz 8mo ago
I think the state could simply allocate money to long-lived scientific institutions and let the experts there handle things as long as there is no obvious corruption.
- dsr_ 8mo agoSelf-regulation has a tendency to either work well for a few years, then gradually become corrupted... or be corrupt from the beginning. A distressingly high percentage of humans like zero-sum status games. More people are happier when status is recognized as a semi-unbounded positive-sum game.
- philipallstar 8mo agoWhat does "let the experts handle things" look like in practice that's much different to fakeable impact metrics such as citation count?
- ahartmetz 8mo agoIt doesn't foster bad publication practices (volume over quality).