Nice summary. OTOH, underlying problem is that the shape of good scientific work (high risk, long-term orientation) doesn’t fit the shape of individual careers in any currently plausible institutional framework. No full near-term solution is possible. https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/998307085791064064 …
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Sufficiently large institutions should have no problem with a portfolio of such "investments" as long as they can distinguish legitimate high risk / high reward work from work that is simply doomed to fail from the beginning.
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The latter is the problem. Accountable institutions have to evaluate people “objectively” instead of on the basis of “JSB thinks she’s a smart weirdo”. It’s the attempt at objective fairness that creates a Goodhart’s Law dynamic, which is why 95% of science is wasted effort.
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Yes. Very fine article, and the university system (including academic science) seems near the cusp of collapse on multiple fronts.
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