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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      Writers read their contemporaries working on similar things much less that readers interested in the same subject and with similar levels of reading volume. It’s a sort of driving blind spot effect where you can’t quite see the car one carlength behind you to your left

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      Your own writing gets in the way just like your own car gets in the way. You have to work 3x harder to access the work of blindspot contemporaries. Like use mirrors, go through contortions etc. They’re too close and in awkward alignment with your cognitive coordinate system.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      This is why peer review is in some ways a very compromised mechanism and only works in special conditions, such as existence of a methodological consensus.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      Peer review is actually a very special mechanism that needs significant institutional engineering to sustain in an effective condition, by institutions prone to corruption and distortionary tendencies, kinda like markets (“laissez-faire was planned, planning was not” — Polyani)

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      It is interesting that blogosphere did *not* naturally evolve a peer-review type mechanism, which tells you how artificial that is. It instead evolved a competitive sympathetic citation race (ie virality) as the marker of memetic potency, a cousin of truth just like peer review.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      Cf my old threadstack on independent research, I’m now coming at it from a methodological angle, thinking in terms of what it would take to form effective collaborations among wannabe-indies, perhaps using the affordances of tools like @RoamResearch. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195937380210921472?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195937380210921472 …

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      Thinking about my thread this morning on why independent research is hard, and what it would take to make it possible, and whether it’s within the reach of private investors who ALL complain endlessly about how they have far too much capital and don’t know where to put it. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …
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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      It is easy to underestimate the importance of the toolchains and media. But a lot about academic research can be explained by the fact that it’s conducted in PDF units, woven together by citation indices and one of the shadiest publishing industries on the planet cc @vaughn_tan

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    8. vaughn tan‏ @vaughn_tan 14 Dec 2019
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      i feel vaguely schooled. which is a good thing. there is a constant urge to duct tape systems which should be incinerated and then—maybe—rebuilt from the ground up

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      I have no desire to incinerate the academic system. It can limp along. I just want an alt.

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        1. vaughn tan‏ @vaughn_tan 14 Dec 2019
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          i don't either but sometimes it does seem like the only viable way forward.

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