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The PhD Metagame: Don't try to reform science – not yet
Don't try to reform science. Not yet. Not in your PhD. In grad school, you'll start complaining about the publishing...
Past influential solo researchers I know of were landed gentry (e.g., Boyle, Newton-ish, Darwin, Maxwell) working in immature fields. I think these cultural details, combined with the usual dissatisfaction from The Bitter Lesson, plus perhaps a sprinkle of jealousy, led to a negative feeling about BERT’s academic recognition nobody admitted publicly. This illustrates the two-layered view of knowledge in the hard(er) sciences: the swirling mass is still present, sitting one level of abstraction above the results table.
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