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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      8️⃣ Fraud—invented facts—are a different problem from nonsense. In science, publishing a paper based on false, made-up data would not generally count. Either you use real data and give a bogus interpretation, or you describe a worthless data-collection process (with fake data).

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      9️⃣ This proposal is not nice. Unfortunately, it is too late for nice. Many-to-most academic fields run on a go-along-to-get-along basis, and now have large negative net value as a result. Some fields should simply end. I suggested that for nutrition:https://meaningness.com/nutrition-resigns …

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      🔟 A tension here: academia is increasingly awful as a career. That drives away many of the best researchers. Reforms that add to the suffering risk making a bad situation even worse. Currently, reviewing papers is unpaid scut-work. Not surprising not everyone does it well.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      1️⃣1️⃣ If peer review has reputational risk—it will be public knowledge if you recommend accepting a deliberately bad paper—many people may decline the job. (Though, successful detection of a hoax should look good on your CV!) Publishers might have to pay reviewers…

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      1️⃣2️⃣ … and the total number of papers published might drop precipitously if reviewers were more reluctant to recommend publication. That would be good. Everyone agrees there’s WAY too much stuff published under the current system. A 90% reduction would be great.

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    6. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 3 Oct 2018
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      Something that we greatly need is a compression of current knowledge. Exposition is way undervalued. Much current literature is scattered, poorly written, poorly organized. Many of these people doing mediocre research could be writing good exposition - easier and still valuable

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    7. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 3 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @FateOfTwist_ @Meaningness

      In philosophy, eg. write Aristotle in modern language and style, collect arguments and elaboration related to him over the millennia; rewrite Heidegger. In math, simplify, make more conceptual, give structural characterizations with category theory, universal properties

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @FateOfTwist_

      This would be so great! Although… I think you may have to be even smarter to explain a field well than to engage in it.

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    9. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 4 Oct 2018
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      Depends on the level. Cutting edge research? Need to be very smart. Graduate level math? Just ask around what everyone's intuitions, examples, analogies, strategies and methods are, do exercises, prove main theorems for yourself, do computations, then synthesize

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    10. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 4 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @FateOfTwist_ @Meaningness

      There are still huge areas of graduate level math (even some undergrad!) that lots of people know where there isn't really a single book or the best (only) book on the subject is poor quality

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2018
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      I hope you work on this! Very valuable

      7:04 AM - 4 Oct 2018
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        2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 4 Oct 2018
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          When I was closer in time to my degree I tried to do this with some undergraduate maths that I felt was taught in a way that minimized the chances of understanding and maximized the chances of hating it. Unfortunately, doing so is a lot of fairly unrewarding work.

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        3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 4 Oct 2018
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          (I agree that it's very valuable, there's just a sadly large gap between valuable and rewarded)

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