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Expert generalists are precisely the thing that's missing, especially with how younger scientists are trained. It's harder to fund an expert generalist. Freema
by dluan 11y ago
Expert generalists are precisely the thing that's missing, especially with how younger scientists are trained. It's harder to fund an expert generalist.
Freeman Dyson is a great example because at 89 he published the solution to the prisoner's dilemma, decades later than the original theoretical physics work.
- ThomPete 11y agoExactly!
- jowiar 11y agoThe Ph.D. process weeds out anyone who has any desire to become an expert generalist.
- linhchi 11y ago> the solution to the PD Dyson truly proposes a great solution lying in PD. That is a huge oversight for game theorists when they let an outsider do that. However, it's not the ultimate solution. It's an extremely interesting aspect (a strategy, a style of play) of the PD that game theorists somehow have never seen and articulated in maths. For the evolutionary fitness of the extortioner solution that Dyson discovers: Evolution of extortion in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games http://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6913.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6913.abstract