Ie we've moved from pristine to competitive forms of intellectual empire building, to borrow a pair of concepts from political science. To produce at all is to compete with an incumbency.
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Because of deep ties to the way university research is funded, academic mode production has a ceremonialized fail-fast aspect to it. Going off on your own spirit quest on a topic for 5 years is career suicide. Publish and get past ornery peer reviewers frequently or perish.
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This may be why the dream of institutionalizing independent research is wishful thinking. If you want others to pay, you're going to be subject yourself to early, conservative QA. No funding source will pay for a world of extended solipsistic questing.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …
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You alluded to this in a previous convo
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Interesting
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