We'd likely make more substantial achievements if we all worked together.
@mmitchell_ai had a great thread a couple weeks ago about (in part) incentivizing responsible approaches to AI. I think we're bound up in resource silos that force an unhealthy optimization toward "wins".
I wonder how much more science could achieve if the research community had a culture of rewarding and celebrating collective achievements, instead of individual credit-taking and flag-planting
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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry S. Truman
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Probably more papers with 5,154 authors. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803 … The BibTex entry:pic.twitter.com/szFOUd7JHx
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hmmm... what if we just came up with a different metric, broader than citations which also encompasses collective contributions somehow, e.g., if I tried X and failed, that might have helped you try Y and succeed instead of having to try X and fail!
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Did you read Braben’s book “scientific freedom, …” on his experience funding research at BP ? He was arguing for the opposite in the context of funding: fund individuals and ideas, not projects. I did not think the book was great, but it had a few worthwhile arguments
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It is simply because of the reason that people steal "ideas". How nice it would have been if we could just stick to our integrity for not doing such thing? Just a thought and sharing!!!
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This seems to be a reflection of the general human tendency to hero worship individuals instead of groups for collective accomplishments. For example, the praise of Neil Armstrong as opposed to the general NASA community.
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Do you think the hope of becoming one of these individuals (Nobel, Turing Laureate) is a primary motivator of the scientific community, making individual accolades necessary to encourage collective scientific progress?
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If the research community was more properly funded, then the issue may be alleviated as publications aren't the lifeline of a researcher's career
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