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		dkarl on March 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stagnation and Scientific Incentives It's doubly tragic if it simultaneously incentivized the mass production of boring, low-value science and punished the boring but valuable work of replication.

awinter-py on March 22, 2020 [–]

yes -- this is kind of the 'deep work' argument

the distracting stuff is ultimately low value

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