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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

Meta- on the slowed pace of innovation, pulling together several s from the past 24 hours, plus other related thoughts/references…

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David Chapman Retweeted Ben Southwood

I recommend this new paper about slowing innovation from @bswud & @tylercowen, from which I’ll extract what might (or might not) be a relatively minor point overall:https://twitter.com/bswud/status/1196338882821984257 …

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A draft of my paper with @tylercowen on the rate of scientific progress is OUT. Comments much appreciated! https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/is-the-rate-of-scientific-progress-slowing-down.html …

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

The paper points to a major concern of my corner of the internet: that it’s gotten much harder to do good work in STEM because the pragmatic circumstances of researchers are much less conducive. There’s a long list of factors, each pretty dire, and in sum maybe catastrophic.pic.twitter.com/4rbvisV89l

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

The function of research universities used to be to provide a support structure within which individuals could spend substantially their your time doing some mixture of teaching and research. They’re no long really even pretending to do that.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

David Chapman Retweeted David Chapman

Ah, hmm, while looking for an old tweet of mine on this topic, I discovered a 2017 thread that made most of the same points I’m about to tweet today! Both draw on an unfinished blog post that apparently I ought to polish up and publish for reference…https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/843950702187560960 …

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Research universities used to provide conducive circumstances for thinking—but perverse incentives and administrative idiocies negated that.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

Some types of cognitive work, which may be critical for innovative breakthroughs, are apparently *impossible* except under highly specialized circumstances that are mostly no longer available. This *might* explain why we’re continuing to make progress in “normal science” only.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

David Chapman Retweeted David Chapman

.@michael_nielsen and I discussed this yesterday in a tweet thread that unfortunately forked so it's a bit hard to point to, but here's one pointer into it:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1196125642342858753 …

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Many of my projects require specific non-ordinary cognitive modes to proceed, and it usually takes me about three full-time days to get myself into the relevant state. Any significant interruption aborts the process.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

David Chapman Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

Some outstanding researchers recognize the problem and go independent, hoping that it’s easier to do serious thinking outside an institutional context than within one. In this @vgr explains some of the reasons that mostly doesn’t work:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …

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Venkatesh Rao @vgr

I was briefly calling myself an independent researcher: somebody who self-funds spec R&D on their own ideas. In theory it’s something like indie-research : academic research :: blogging/self-publishing : traditional publishing. But the idea doesn’t really work.

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José Luis Ricón (Artir)‏ @ArtirKel Nov 18

Replying to @Meaningness @vgr

Is the only solution to build an actual, physical alternative academic institution. Like an IAS but for area X?

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Nov 18

Replying to @ArtirKel @vgr

I don’t know! Physically proximity to smart people who you talk to frequently is extremely valuable, but maybe the internet is making that decreasingly necessary. I seem to recall some recent science-of-science of study to that effect, actually, although I can’t remember details.

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José Luis Ricón (Artir)‏ @ArtirKel Nov 18

Replying to @Meaningness @vgr

idk, for some kind of minor tasks, remote seems fine, for more creative ones (collaborative fleshing out a problem, etc) I still feel the pull of irl.

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1. Alexey Guzey‏ @alexeyguzey Nov 21
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  same. I'm long irl
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