1/ thinking maybe the modal researcher never comes up with any particularly interesting ideas. just a couple per generation in broad fields
2/ so why so many academics? obvious answers are (i) kuhnian normal science for practical fields, (ii) don't know ex ante who'll be greats
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3/ maybe underappreciated (iii): vetting lots of ideas to see which are actually good then proselytizing
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