Yes, but this is not new. Writer and scholars want recognition and don't want their work to be ignored. "Why write about footnotes if you don't want to be a footnote yourself?" They may care deeply about those obscure ideas, and still traffic in pablum out of pure necessity.
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Using common language is the primitive example of how this is useful. Invention is about finding the right answers, research is about communicating with a community. If you’re not using common references in a communication you better be creating something that speaks for itself
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Yes, also the belief that if it’s not returned by Google, an article, book, paper is not valuable. SEO culture optimizes discoverability and distribution at the cost of surfacing original thoughts.
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I love that last line.
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Like those alphabetical lists....alpha schmalpha...
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True, but does such writing & research actually move the world? Most content is prob fluff with negligible cultural/historical impact. If so, then better question is how much the few seminal, world-changing people, books, movies, research, etc. are biased by the selection effect.
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There was intellectual inbreeding even before Google and a small selection of ideas always dominated. But discourse did not wither. Why are we assuming that because of Google things are worse? Google also permits you to sample and access a wide range of perspectives.
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