my concern is that bad papers are not worth zero, or even that when they are bad their net value is equal to their (negative) gross value. rather bad papers displace entire bodies of functional antecedent knowledgehttps://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1410763963780919297?s=19 …
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this is especially dire when shitty papers (eg the entire body of psychology) displace a folk system rather than a different set of academic knowledge for two reasons
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first, folk systems like common law are totally incoherent and kludged together, but have the benefit of being evolved and so end up being pretty good even if theyre completely antisystematic. some would say this is a feature not a bug
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second, folk knowledge modalities are basically adaptable and flexible and so amenable to the indexical by contrast academic systems are not only rigid but tend to become institutionalized
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so when you have a bad one on your hands not only is it bad per se but you will never be rid of it and its adherents will end up exerting power over their purported domain of expertise
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theres no tyranny like epistemic tyrrany
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ya all this is totally fair but the real redpill is that social science isnt science we need to unperson the social sciences
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if you publish a wrong and dumb paper about physics or computer science for the most part some bureaucracy of experts is not about to come and fuck you over
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worst case is that it leads to a misallocation of researchers & investment funds. the damage of the former is limited to academia and the latter will get culled quickly by market forces
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not about to come and fuck other people*** over
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I think you are gonna be unpleasantly surprised by what happens next in the natural sciences :/
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