So much relevant expertise in political science. This would be so much better as a team project that included them.https://twitter.com/GovernorTomWolf/status/962060492175900674 …
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This is a fun article, and there's interesting truth to it. But I wish it engaged seriously with the other viewpoint. Is there ever a good time to turn down a von Neumann for your math-focused venture? Einstein for a physics venture? Etc.
If the answer is just "You get experts whose domain expertise is more appropriate [than Einstein etc] for the particular problem under consideration" then the article becomes true but obvious and uninteresting.
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The likelihood that you will get someone who understands the math _and_ the institutional politics _and_ the local specificities of Pennsylvania politics is obviously very low. Genius travels - but nearly always within a specific ambit and with a specific bag of tricks.
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So I think you need to integrate very different kinds of expertise if you want to answer these questions. Though I can’t remember how/if you talk about these specific kinds of cognitive crossover in Reinventing Science …
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