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Ofc your sims aren’t meant to be quantitative… but fwiw I’d estimate >80% of scientists are dead weight (<= 0 value). Somehow some science gets done anyway! In practice I think this is because the competent people have informal networks that route around the damage.
"Somehow some science gets done anyway!" — well the degree is much higher IRL. In the sims, each scientist can only talk to 4 others! "Informal networks" — I've heard this called the "invisible college" and I _love_ that term.
Btw, David, I think you'd really like this essay (which I excerpted for you a couple weeks ago): https://thestoryofscience.blogspot.com/?m=0 I would also love to hear your thoughts on it! It talks about invisible colleges and systemic problems with science and many other things.
Several centuries ago, I described this in print as the Secret Paper Passing Network. At that time it literally operated by snail-mailing paper papers, because the ARPANET wasn’t quite yet up to the job. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487 …pic.twitter.com/4KFzbbVoEG
what a fun (and funny) document. xeroxes! but most of those bullet points following your screenshot are timeless
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interactive essay!
How to prevent disease, control nuclear reactions, and encourage the spread of ideas. All with playable simulations.
