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Thinking of it as “pop” culture accepts academia’s view of itself as “high” culture uncritically. I think of it as alt intellectual culture. If you control for simple access to resources, I actually think it produces more novelty on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
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Blogs are biased towards insight porn and academia is biased towards peer recognition and legibility. Slight edge in rigor probably towards academia but at the expense of interestingness where blogs clearly win