listening to Will Durant on Islamic science rn occurs to me that scientific learnings are basically subject to campbell's law too
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all of the great scribes and scholars of Islam were not *incentivized* to do their work at most they were simply enabled specifically, enabled in their obsessive autism, which produced the rich fruits of the era
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scholarship of the present era seems vastly more structured around achieving Results but my hunch is that these results are, in nature, not an end but simply an offshoot of obsession
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trying to apply Structure and Governance and Output Measurement to the academy has perhaps been the greatest error of our age
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this if for no other reason than Regulation and Governance and Administration drive out the mightiest autistic souls from institutions of learning as normies flock to do their usual bullshit in a system where they can suddenly win socially and quickly outcompete the natives
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