its kind of true tho firepower matters its not all that matters but its a major contributor cant get away from ithttps://twitter.com/osanderfoot/status/1216776289501138944 …
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it doesnt determine your moral value but some things are just really hard to do without certain levels of ability everyone in science knows this and talks about it constantly if circumlocutiously
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most people are not smart enough to be scientists including many or perhaps most scientists and frankly including me and thats okhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1216593391787499520?s=19 …
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But, what do you *mean* by this? Serious question!
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Hmmm happy to answer but can you refund the question/restate more specifically?
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Thnx! Ok, I mean… If most scientists aren't smart enuf to be scientists, then…? What ARE they doing? What's missing? What's a scientist who's smart enough to be one look like? Wht do thy add vs insufficiently smart one? Qual or quantitative diff? (Qual right? Else who cares?)
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science is an intense process and really involved when done well you're kind of trying to reshape lenses through which we view reality in ways no one has managed before mediocre scientist failure mode: using cookie-cutter methods thoughtlessly to produce cargo cult research
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this is most commonly done using statistics today historically it seemed to be done with garbage taxonomic approaches and vapid theorizing
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Hmmmm, what would you say is its effect at scale? Slow progress, or progress fuel, or stasis?
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Some stagnation and some massive misdirection Basically everything out of eg psych and education research is garbage; similarly econ (although effect is often less harmful there for {reasons}) We're going to need eons to clear out the corruption
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