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    1. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Jul 2019
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      After seeing a bunch of people get mad at this editorial proposing a "Progress Studies" field, I've concluded that the critics are wrong; an interdisciplinary program aimed at figuring out how to boost the rate of scientific discovery would have value.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/ …

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    2. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Jul 2019
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      Scientists, historians, organizational behavior researchers, and researchers from other relevant disciplines could potentially come up with some interesting policy ideas if they cooperated in a DARPA-style mission-oriented research program aimed at boosting U.S. science.

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    3. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Jul 2019
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      The critics of the article have mostly been saying "This already exists! It's called [insert field here]!!". But there are many of these fields. And there should be a place for them to come together, share different perspectives, and develop some concrete policy recommendations.

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    4. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Jul 2019
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      "Progress Studies" is probably not a great name for this effort. And I think it should probably be a DARPA-style project instead of a permanent field of study (unless some universities want to make it a permanent interdisciplinary program). But the basic idea is sound.

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    5. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Jul 2019
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      Don't knock interdisciplinary research. Siloing can lead to stagnation. And don't knock mission-oriented research. It has a good track record in a lot of areas. (end)

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Aug 2019
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      Can you elaborate a bit more on what your DARPA-style project would look like?

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        2. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 1 Aug 2019
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          Yes. Check out this essay: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24674  Basically, it would have a mission ("propose concrete policies for increasing the rate of technological progress") and a powerful program manager, and would draw on people from multiple disciplines.

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        3. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 1 Aug 2019
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          Of course, you could envision multiple such projects - one for increasing progress in each area, or one for increasing each aspect of progress. For example, you could have one project about how to increase the efficiency of NSF/NIH funding...

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        2. Patrick Fessenbecker‏ @pfessenbecker 1 Aug 2019
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          Hi Patrick and Noah -- if you don't mind two cents from a humanist, I think there's a key concern that needs to be addressed: whether "progress studies" can be broad enough to include competing definitions of progress. And if not, then whether it should form a scholarly agenda.

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        3. Patrick Fessenbecker‏ @pfessenbecker 1 Aug 2019
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          It seems so from the article's definition: "By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living." So progress isn't just scientific discovery. /1

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        1. Tony Wuersch‏ @twersh 3 Aug 2019
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          If I may try, one project could be to create an abstract cloud that institutes good devops practices, in a way that offers easy design, admin, entry and exit for support collectives working under well-defined and basic abstract org hierarchies.

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