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> unless the externally motivated people impede the internally motivated people in such a way that negative progress is made Is it not obvious to you that this
by asciilifeform 17y ago
> unless the externally motivated people impede the internally motivated people in such a way that negative progress is made
Is it not obvious to you that this must be the case? Every scientific field (and the set of professional researchers as a whole, I dare say) has a prevailing culture, like any other community. A scientific culture which rewards grantsmanship, bootlicking, and smoke-and-mirrors tricks is necessarily hostile to anyone who is genuinely devoted to advancing science.
- blasdel 17y agoI was going to congratulate you on the biting neologism, but a depressing search revealed 'grantsmanship' to be a whole field of study :(
- zackattack 17y agoI challenge you to suggest a better system.
- asciilifeform 17y agoBring back Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and their ilk. No grantsmanship, just buildings full of smart people working on whatever they like. That was the system which yielded the foundations for just about every technology you enjoy today.
- zackattack 17y agoBell Labs pretty much won the Netflix prize