People forage for the resolution of uncertainty. Artificial certainty is a lot more salable than information.https://twitter.com/mountainherder/status/1108763667598700545 …
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Replying to @generativist
I'm going to admit, there are times when I wish I was the other way. For one, I end up being a terrible salesman of my own work beyond a very niche audience because I'm not willing to speak in absolutes.
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Replying to @mountainherder @generativist
I'm also profoundly insecure about not knowing the field well enough, always being afraid I'm missing something important.
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Replying to @mountainherder
I'm basically unwilling to trust anyone who doesn't feel that way at this point, regardless of their reputation. There's just impossibly too much to know for one person. Modern scholarship is necessary social for work/knowledge sharing.
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Replying to @generativist @mountainherder
society has hype men/women/bots for a reason - they generate hype so you don’t have too
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Replying to @rejectionking @mountainherder
I'm extremely worried that to get money/funding for some of the things I want to build, I'll have to learn to do the same.
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Replying to @generativist @rejectionking
This is my fear too. I'm not good at sales. I don't want to be, I don't have the personality type.
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In fact, the thing that keeps me up at night the most is a fear that I'm generally unemployable in my late 30s because I'm hopelessly wedded to the idea that inquiry and knowledge should be pursued on their own merits rather than to enhance productivity or fit an agenda.
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Replying to @mountainherder @rejectionking
It's terrifying how few people support the ideal, even just as an ideal. Even the science is about "objective knowledge" crowd rarely defends pure research if it won't eke out a few efficiency bucks.
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Replying to @generativist @rejectionking
I mean, I get it. None of our incentives are aligned that way. The only way you might be able to pull it off is is you're already a well established scholar with a lot of prestige and some line on magical funding.
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Yea. And AFAICT, that only happens once you've reached the emeritus stage of your career/life, so...
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If we had set out to design a system that was *supposed* to make genuinely thoughtful scholarly work the rare exception rather than the rule, we could scarcely have done better than the system we have.
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