2/ all academic departments have this to some extent or another, but the closer you get to STEM, the more that positive externality games come into play. If I'm a CS prof and I invent a better data structure that industry uses, and you come up with a new neural net hack ...
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3/ Then we can BOTH deliver value to the world as a whole, and we can BOTH bask in accolades, and we can BOTH get consulting gigs on the side.
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4/ "should" is fighting a pretty hard uphill battle against incentiveshttps://twitter.com/d08890/status/1351510691463770113 …
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5/ like the man sang I fight incentives, Incentives always wins Well, I fight incentives, Incentives always wins Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid And I come out grinnin' Well, I fight incentives, Incentives always wins
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6/ You've fallen for one of the two classic blunders! The first being never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly lesser known: never get involved in a zero sum game !
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7/ Absolutely this happens.https://twitter.com/Fungusaur/status/1351522623935688705 …
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this is not inaccurate, at least not wholly but we should be better than that, goddammit
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I’m assuming right now that humanities grad students are searching each other’s social media, looking to preemptively cancel them in order to reduce competition for their limited jobs.
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