Which would be great if it were available to everyone — rather than requiring a) school, and/or b) the ability to do research in the first place.
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Take someone who doesn't want to do university courses, but does want to get into research, and doesn't already know how to do effective research. What options does such a person have?
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Replying to @reasonisfun @ToKTeacher and
Hmm…. it might depend on what field you want to do research in? Probably you need to join a community of practice. Nowadays those are virtually always controlled by increasingly-dysfunctional institutions with high barriers to entry.
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun and
Possibly you can find an eccentric individual mentor (but that has obvious downsides). A few research institutions are independent of universities and industry, but mostly they demand a graduate degree, and aren’t interested in fostering learning as such.
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun and
It’s obvious to many people that something has to replace research universities, or at least supplement them, because they don’t work well anymore. However, no one has more than a vague sense of what that might be.
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun and
I have been searching for exactly this, but yes- the main advice that I have gotten is that while academia sucks, it's sort of the only way because it's the only way to find communities of practice. Specifically got this from someone who did independent research b4 grad school
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @reasonisfun and
What was the experience of that person who did independent research?
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun and
Said that the year they spent on their own was essentially a waste, research improved dramatically once they were working among other scientists who could point out improvements
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @reasonisfun and
Really interesting. It would be great if they could write a blog post reflecting on this. Ideally at some sort of intermediate level—not “Abigail pointed out a way to do this experiment better” and not “social support is important, yo” but >
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> “I learned how to choose which papers are worth reading through hearing older grad students explain ways I could quickly dismiss one, viz a, b, … , k” or “I couldn’t have refined a good-enough but doable thesis topic without frequent too-hard/easy feedback from lots of people”
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Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian and
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